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Old January 13th 07, 10:30 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.apps
Scott
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Default Partitioning A Drive

I set up a new hard drive with two partitions using fdisk. Then I
restored a drive image to the C drive. I discovered that I had set
the size of the second partition too small, so I'm not getting the
full use of the drive. Is it possible to use a boot disk and then
fdisk to reset the size of the second partition...or do I need to
use something like Partition Magic, since the second partition is
already formatted?

Thanks!
Scott
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Old January 14th 07, 01:20 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.apps
Jeff Richards
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Default Partitioning A Drive

FDISK cannot be used to change existing partitions. It can only be used to
delete everything and start over.

Something like Partition Magic, such as BootitNG is needed to change the
existing partitioning without forcing you to start over.

Note that it is common for the partitioning to be slightly smaller than the
full size of the drive. Something other than FDISK might give a little more
control over this lost space, but not much.
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"Scott" wrote in message
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I set up a new hard drive with two partitions using fdisk. Then I
restored a drive image to the C drive. I discovered that I had set
the size of the second partition too small, so I'm not getting the
full use of the drive. Is it possible to use a boot disk and then
fdisk to reset the size of the second partition...or do I need to
use something like Partition Magic, since the second partition is
already formatted?

Thanks!
Scott



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Old January 14th 07, 01:32 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.apps
Ron Badour
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Default Partitioning A Drive

Like Jeff said, you need some help as fdisk won't adjust partitions:

BootIt Next Generation is available from: http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/
and it does partitioning, makes a compressed image, does many other
partitioning chores and is a boot manager. It is not quite as easy to use
as Partition Magic but it is half the cost and has more features. Unlike
the crippled PMagic demo, BING is a *full function* demo you can try for
FREE for 30 days. The web site has a lot of support articles.


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I set up a new hard drive with two partitions using fdisk. Then I
restored a drive image to the C drive. I discovered that I had set
the size of the second partition too small, so I'm not getting the
full use of the drive. Is it possible to use a boot disk and then
fdisk to reset the size of the second partition...or do I need to
use something like Partition Magic, since the second partition is
already formatted?

Thanks!
Scott



 




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