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resizing an active partition
Name: Aredo Date: May 21, 2000 at 09:28:36 Pacific
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Hi,
I want to resize an active disk partition (WIN98) to make a room for Linux without destroying the data. Is there a, preferably free, software that can be used for that purpose?
just had the same problem, only i had an empty partition.. Your problem is to be solved with Partition Magic. check download.com, it may be there. you can partition or resize them within windows9x.. only backup your stuff first!
btw don't get why people love linux. ok i don't like win98, but linux (suse 6.3) is even worse for beginners!!
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Response Number 2
Name: ZZ Bottom Date: May 21, 2000 at 10:38:47 Pacific
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Partition Magic is great, but far from being free... Linux utility fips might help you out, but I've never used it myself, so further research on your part is needed. Don't ignore backing up all of your important data…
FIPS works very well however do relize you can screw up windows if you do it wrong . read the HOWTO on it .
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Response Number 4
Name: royce Date: May 21, 2000 at 19:33:26 Pacific
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g/day Aredo Yes its possible, but it all depends on your degrag beforehand i tried the same thing recently but lost a couple of files and could not reboot i did,nt try to clean up just reinstalled (i used partition manager) regards royce
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Response Number 5
Name: royce Date: May 21, 2000 at 20:40:21 Pacific
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Aredo try DEFRAG even royce
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Response Number 6
Name: tacitus Date: May 23, 2000 at 06:21:53 Pacific
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As an alternative to fips (which I found tricky and problematic with fat32) you could try the freeware partitoner at: www.users.intercom.com/~ranish/part/ The online support at the homepage is good, and it supports partitioning without data loss and formatting for any OS within the same package.
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