Sorry guys... But I have to say you can't do it! I've got PM 5 and 7 and neither allows you to resize the boot partition of a Fat32 drive. I've spoken to a couple of people here at work who's job it is to sort these things out... If you KNOW you can do it though, I'd love to know how.. Maybe someone could try it out? (You don't actually have to apply the changes in PM to know wether or not you can actually do them) ..
The first thing I tried was reducing one of the other partitions and then assigning the newly unnasigned space to the C: drive.. Unforetunately you simply can't increase the size of the C: drive to any larger than it already is.. Looks like I'll convert to NTFS at the weekend.. I've heard that it's a good idea to back everything up B4 doing this (which I will; Not easy with an 80Gb Hard drive!!)... But I have no real idea of what can go wrong! cheers, Nick -----Original Message----- From: Scott Bradley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 26 February 2002 09:14 To: Drum & Bass Arena Discussion List Subject: [dnb-prod] RE: Slightly OT... Hard drive formats Yes you can ! Just boot from floppy and resize. > -----Original Message----- > From: Nick Lankester [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 25 February 2002 17:50 > To: Drum & Bass Arena Discussion List > Subject: [dnb-prod] RE: Slightly OT... Hard drive formats > > > Yeah, I've already got it but you can't resize an active boot > partition if it's FAT32!! > > I don't know about the latest XP version of PM, but I think it's > a limitation of the format as opposed to the software.. > > cheers, > > Nick > > -----Original Message----- > From: alpher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 25 February 2002 17:31 > To: Drum & Bass Arena Discussion List > Subject: [dnb-prod] RE: Slightly OT... Hard drive formats > > > You could use something like partition magic which can resize a > partition without loosing any data. > > al > > -----Original Message----- > From: Nick Lankester [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 25 February 2002 17:21 > To: Drum & Bass Arena Discussion List > Subject: [dnb-prod] Slightly OT... Hard drive formats > > 1 for the Geek/Guru crew I'm afraid!! > > > Has anyone ever converted a FAT32 drive to NTFS ? > > > My C: drive has run out of space and the only 2 ways I know how to > change it without blanking the drive are: > > 1. Convert the whole drive to NTFS which allows you to resize the boot > partition. > 2. Clone the C: drive to another partition and then set the new > partition to active.. Then resize the old one and swap back... > > The second option sounds safer but more longwinded... Anyone got any > ideas? > > cheers, > > Nick > > --- > Drum&Bass Arena Producers Discussion List http://www.breakbeat.co.uk > You are currently subscribed to dnb-prod as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > _________________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > > --- > Drum&Bass Arena Producers Discussion List http://www.breakbeat.co.uk > You are currently subscribed to dnb-prod as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --- > Drum&Bass Arena Producers Discussion List http://www.breakbeat.co.uk > You are currently subscribed to dnb-prod as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --- Drum&Bass Arena Producers Discussion List http://www.breakbeat.co.uk You are currently subscribed to dnb-prod as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Drum&Bass Arena Producers Discussion List http://www.breakbeat.co.uk You are currently subscribed to dnb-prod as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
