Clarence Verge wrote:
>>On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 00:46:06 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
> Hello Clarence:
>
> 32,768 bytes in each allocation unit (cluster size?)
Ouch !
Partition it.<<
But DON'T use FDISK unless you have a complete backup of your HD and a boot
floppy. Use one of the non-destructive disk partitioners available, such as
Partition Magic, that will partition a HD on the fly. STANDARD CAVEAT:
Always have a complete backup before you do *anything* with your hard drive.
You may have to do several partition operations to partition the HD without
losing data. Say you have 800MB of files on your 1.2GB HD, your first
operation would be to partition the HD into an 800MB+ partition, and a 400MB-
or smaller partition(s). Transfer some of the files from the 800MB partition
into the 400MB or smaller partition(s); then another partition can be created
using the empty space now existing in the 800MB partition. If you try to
change the size of a partition to smaller than the occupied area, you will
lose data/files.
Hope this helps.
Roger Turk
Tucson, Arizona USA
