From: ovek AT arcticnet DOT no (Ove Kåven)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.lang.asm.x86,rec.games.programmer,comp.os.msdos.djgpp,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: DESPERATE: I need partition thingy!
Date: Sat, 12 Oct 1996 04:07:24 GMT
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".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? :)