On Tue, 1 Jun 2010 14:34:01 -0700, Andrew
wrote:

partinfo.exe for Win98 displays a nice table on the screen, which can be
copied to any document. In addition, there are several options to choose
from, e.g. Save As, Copy to Clipboard and more. I saved the results, as the
.txt file. It's only 22K.

This sounds good. I'd save the list(s) so you can check that your
primary partitions are still contiguous at the start of the disk. I
doubt that many people are concerned with partitions and disk layouts
nowadays (except when something goes wrong) so the subject is a bit of a
black art. It's quite simple really but just a bit alien.

In case everything fails, wouldn't be reasonable to:
- copy all files from D: and E: to a USB stick
- delete the D: and E: partitions from my drive
- delete my Extended partition
- resize the WinXP partition, let's say to 45 GB
- create the Extended partition
- create the D: and E: partitions (this time a bit bigger)
- copy the files from the USB stick back to D: and E:

Yes, I'd copy everything. The good thing about this is that you will
have a backup in case your disk crashes.

If you play with ptedit I'll be interested to hear how it goes.

Cheers,
--
Steven