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Old May 20th 10, 08:41 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.disks.general
Hot-text
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Default Problem with accessing a partition

Look the the drive You made bigger Will worked perfectly OK True, But the
Dive after it will stop working
Because you are moving Space form that Drive and making it smaller, Not from
the end of the Disk where the unallocated is for it will always be the same
Sizes! until you make the last drive partition bigger, or make a new
partition Drive! That why you move the bigger Down for.

You Defragment Because the Info on the Disk looks like this

01010101010 Free Space 01010101010 Free Space Free Space 01010101010 Free
Space 01010101010 Free Space Free Space
You to Defragment the move the info like this
01010101010010101010100101010101001010101010 Free Space Free Space Free
Space Free Space Free Space Free Space

That way you move the Free Space down not the info 01010

if you move the Info, that Drive it will stop working afterwards but the
bigger one Will worked perfectly
and if you Save a file in the bigger perfectly working afterwards you may
not be able to work that drive no more!



So that is the problems being address here right!

If project requires technicians to do service then call one.

They do for $35 to $45 a hour you look at a 3 to 6 hour job!



"Andrew" wrote in message
...
Hot-text, I appreciate your efforts, I really do and I don't want to say
that
your ideas are flat wrong.
The point is that you don't read my text carefully enough and consequently
you are not addressing my problems.
Most likely, this is also why you didn't notice that the drive I made
bigger
worked perfectly OK before and after the resizing, which is in
contradiction
to what you are claiming in this post.

"Hot-text" wrote:

I really familiar with Partitioning all Software work the some when in
making a Partition!
You have to move the Free Space down from drive to drive Magic 8 can
help
in the moving of the Free Space and
Have to Defragment as you go too!

our you will have Fragment it one Drive that go to the Fragment of the
Drive
you made bigger!
and the drive will stop working!
Remember that why you here right!



"Andrew" wrote in message
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Thanks for fast reaction and your suggestions I'm afraid they don't
answer
my
questions.
1. Are you really familiar with Partition Magic 8?
It does everyting nicely fand automatically for you, although it has to
go
through several steps you are suggesting. It does this using its
Wizard(s)
and you decide to some extent how to do it. I've been using it for
quite a
time without any problems at all, even in the described by me
configuration.
2. In order to make a partition bigger you have to have free space in
the
adjacent partition, not necessarily the next one, as you are
suggesting.
3. I don't need C: for DOS either
4. If you use D: for Win 98, then you can't have WinXP in E:, as this
is
equivalent of having 2 active partitions at any time, which would only
ask
for a disaster. I agree, however, that WinXP should be installed in the
partition following directly Win98, which is the case on my hard disk.


"Hot-text" wrote:

P.S. the XP needed the 80 GB to run good!
O by the way the only Drive you can make Bigger is the last Dive
If you make C:\ bigger it will take the Free Space from D:\
If you make D:\ bigger it will take the Free Space from E:\
If you make E:\ bigger it will take the Free Space from F:\
If you make F:\ bigger it will take the Free Space from G:\
If you make G:\ bigger it will take the Free Space from unallocated,
primary, 87.5 GB

you have to move the Space down form to unallocated
You can not give D:/ 3gb if all the Free Space from E:\ have is to you
have
to Move Free Space Down!
OK

So Start over


"Hot-text" wrote in message
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No C:\ @500MB for MSDOS need for AutoExec.bat, Boot, Config.sys,
bootsect, boot.ini, NTDETECT.COM, msdownld.tmp
VIDEOROM.BIN, + More
For the way you have it XP Boot is in win 98 For all the BOOT are
in
WIN98
you need C:\ for DOS LOOL!

D:\win98
E:\XP
F:\ so on, so on

"Andrew" wrote in message
...
My 160GB Western Digital (48-bit LBA), PATA hard disk (the only HD
I
have
on
this machine) is for a reason partitioned as follows:
C: (Win98se, primary, 14.5GB), * (WinXP, primary, 30.6GB), D:
(logical,
11.8GB), E: (logical, 7.6 GB) and * (unallocated, primary, 87.5
GB).
All partitions are FAT32, created with the aid of Partition Magic
(of
Power
Quest).
Both OSs have been installed independently of each other.
I keep documents and photos on D: and some older backups on E:.
Both
partitions are easily accesible for the active OS.
Yesterday, I tried to cross the 32GB limit (by 3GB) on the WinXP
partition,
by resizing it (while in a hidden status). I did it with the aid of
Partition
Magic 8.0 in Win 98se. After this resizing WinXP seemed to work OK
and
I
could easily access the files on the D: and E: partitions. However,
I
was
unable to access files on D: from Win98se - their names were
scrumbled.
Strangely enough files on E: were accesible.
After resizing the WinXP partition down to the previous size,
clicking
on
D:
issued a message of the type: “D:\ is not accessible, a system
device
doesn’t
work”. However, restarting Win98se returned everything to normal.
Do you have any idea about the reason of such a behavior?
Is there any chance to use bigger than 32 GB WinXP partition on my
system
without compromising normal work of Win98se?
Thanks for your help,
Andrew