From: Andrew Bober <muajb2 AT uxa DOT ecn DOT bgu DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: DESPERATE: I need partition thingy!
Date: Sun, 13 Oct 1996 17:28:39 -0500
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Mark Habersack wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 12 Oct 1996, .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.
> >
> >HELP! PLEASE! Desperate!!!
> >
> >Joker
> >
> Try FIPS. You'll find it in Slackware Linux distribution.
> 
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I've used FIPS twice now and had great success each time.  The first
time was on a labtop and the second on a desktop system.  If I were you
I would give FIPS a try but you seem to be unable to download it from
your earlier posts.  You could just do it by hand you know.  It means
losing EVERYTHING on the drive if you do it by hand.  Here a some steps
to follow if you wish to give it a try.

1)  Backup anything on the drive that you want to save.

2)  Run fdisk.exe

3)  I believe it's option three to delete partitions.

4)  After deleting the DOS patition that spans the disk, assuming that
you only have one opperating system, create a new DOS partition that is
smaller than the disk size to leave room for your NT partition.

5)  At this point you should have a disk with one DOS partition that
does not use the entire disk.

6)  Reboot the machine and reinstall DOS which will format the partition
for you.


After following these steps you will have lost every byte of information
on your hardrive and have a fresh new copy of DOS on a smaller C:
drive.  You can now use the NT setup to handle the rest for you I would
assume.  If not, you may have to create the NT partition your self. 
Remember, if you use FIPS, the main(DOS) partition will be resized
instead of deleted and recreated.  

Good luck!

Andy