From:	Scott Earnest <setech AT ix DOT netcom DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: DESPERATE: I need partition thingy!
Date:	Sat, 12 Oct 1996 15:17:38 -0700
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..oO The Joker Oo. 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.

Of course, changing the partition table by hand isn't exactly a great idea.  (I 
should hope you kept a backup of the info in case something didn't work 
correctly!)

Some suggestions (which you could have found if you took the time to do a 
little research):

ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/diskutil/fips15.zip
(probably the DOS version of the Linux FIPS also mentioned in this thread)

ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/diskutil/presz115.zip
A DOS partition resizer, haven't tried it, but I suppose it should work.

Oh, BTW, why not just backup, repartition, format, and restore?

> HELP! PLEASE! Desperate!!!
> 
> Joker

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