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From:	mind AT ripco DOT com (Dr. Who)
Subject:	Re: DESPERATE: I need partition thingy!
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Date:	Sun, 13 Oct 1996 03:18:35 GMT
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Ove Kåven (ovek AT arcticnet DOT no) wrote:
: ".oO The Joker Oo." <jmcdonal AT pcug DOT org DOT au> wrote:

: >HELP! I desperately need to resize my partition for c: and the dos drive 
: >on it as well. I tried defrag, then change partition table, then change 
: >dos boot record, but some data (like fat size and vfat data) I can't 
: >change. I really need to do this to install NT on an NTFS drive, and I 
: >need to do it yesterday.

: The Linux distributions (at least Slackware) includes a utility called
: FIPS (First non-destructive Interactive Partition Splitter), which
: would reduce the size of a DOS partition.
: sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/distributions/slackware/install/FIPS

: And while you're there anyway, why don't you install Linux instead of
: NT? :)

:)  Took the words right out of my mouth!

I think there's a problem with using FIPS if you also have one of those
hard disk "overlay" things... like OnTrack Disk Mangler or whatever....
I used to have that on this system when it was still DOS, and from what
I read in the FAQ on Fips, it doesn't like it very much.

Just something to be considered.


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