9fans - fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
* DOS FAT Install Question
@ 1995-09-03  5:21 Rupa
  0 siblings, 0 replies; only message in thread
From: Rupa @ 1995-09-03  5:21 UTC (permalink / raw)


In article <41sjap$gl0@linet02.li.net>, Len Dorfman <ldorfman@li.NET> wrote:
>I could delete the C and D partitions and reallocate the space differently, 
>but would prefer not doing that.

A lot of people are recommending FIPS but I think that is a FAT only
utility.  It won't do anything for your HPFS volumes.

I'd suggest getting the program "Partition Magic" which is available
in OS/2+DOS and Windows+DOS packages.  It can resize your FAT and HPFS
partitions all without loosing any data (backup first of course!).  It
can convert FAT to HPFS but not the other way around, so you can't
just convert one of your HPFS partitions...

However, what you can do is shrink one of the partitions higher up,
and then move other partitions up.  Then with the free space adjacent
to your 11mb C: drive expand it to whatever size you want to include
the free space.

The only real drawback is that Partition Magic is not free (unlike
FIPS).  

>All input appreciated.

>Thanks, Len
>ldorfman@li.net




--
         rupa@netcom.com  -- http://venus.ee.ndsu.nodak.edu/os2/rupa/ 

OS/2 Warp and TIA FAQ: ftp.netcom.com:/pub/ru/rupa/tia/tiafaq.zip
           On the WEB: http://venus.ee.ndsu.nodak.edu/os2/rupa/tiafaq_idx.html
                       






^ permalink raw reply	[flat|nested] only message in thread

only message in thread, other threads:[~1995-09-03  5:21 UTC | newest]

Thread overview: (only message) (download: mbox.gz / follow: Atom feed)
-- links below jump to the message on this page --
1995-09-03  5:21 DOS FAT Install Question Rupa

This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).