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Re: [TCLUG:20217] Installfest - anyone bringing Partition Magic?
Gabe Turner officer wrote:
>
> You won't need partition magic unless you want to join the two partitions.
> i suggest you forget about partition magic and just make the current linux
> partition a new win98 partition. Inlinux, fire up fdisk. Change the
> partition type of the linux partition to fat32. Then when you boot up
> win98, the drive will appear in your "My Computer" windows and all you have
> to do is right click on it and choose "Format" to make a fat32 file system
> on it. Then, get to a command prompt and type "fdisk /mbr" to get rid of
> lilo. There you have it, stand-alone win98 box.
>
Can fdisk move partitions? I have a laptop that has a two-partition 6GB
drive. Both partitions are formatted to NTFS. With PartitionMagic (in
the past), I have been able to shrink the size of the second partition
in order to make space for Linux. However, PartitionMagic chokes upon
startup on this laptop so I was looking for alternatives. Right now, I
really can't ax the partition and redo it.
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Perry Hoekstra
Consultant
Talent Software Solutions
dutchman@mn.uswest.net