Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.lang.asm.x86,rec.games.programmer,comp.os.msdos.djgpp,comp.os.linux From: mind AT ripco DOT com (Dr. Who) Subject: Re: DESPERATE: I need partition thingy! Message-ID: Followup-To: comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.lang.asm.x86,rec.games.programmer,comp.os.msdos.djgpp,comp.os.linux Sender: usenet AT rci DOT ripco DOT com (Net News Admin) Organization: Ripco, Chicago's Oldest Online Information Service References: <53o6f2$eh6 AT troll DOT powertech DOT no> Date: Sun, 13 Oct 1996 03:18:35 GMT Lines: 32 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Ove Kåven (ovek AT arcticnet DOT no) wrote: : ".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. : 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. -- ------------------------------------------------ THINK FREE! | mind AT ripco DOT com Knowledge is Power! | question everything! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~