I've tried it on W2000 & W98, maybe some problem is XP, but anyway you can take your HDD to any oher PC and do that job just fine.
-----Original Message----- From: Nick Lankester [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 12:21 PM To: Drum & Bass Arena Discussion List Subject: [dnb-prod] RE: Slightly OT... Hard drive formats Weird!! Thanks a lot.. I'll have another look tonight.. It could be because I'm using PM 5 (PM7 won't run in XP without an upgrade).. I hope to hell it does work! Not only will I be able to use my PC again but I can go and slap my techie mate over the head for giving me shoddy advice!! cheers, Nick -----Original Message----- From: Janis Vitols [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 26 February 2002 10:20 To: Drum & Bass Arena Discussion List Subject: [dnb-prod] RE: Slightly OT... Hard drive formats Sorry it works for me... I just tried. And I know for sure it works, no any needs for NTFS. I`ve got PM Pro 7.0, and older versions did that too, I always have FAT32 and have resized my boot partition couple times in different ways and allways painlessly. Simply rightclicking on drive / resize/move & off we go! Just check you have got free disk space just at your boot partition - resize and move some other partitions. Hey and one more thing - look under PM General/Preferences - maybe you have locked your hard drive??? If so unlock it! I hope it helps! -----Original Message----- From: Nick Lankester [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 12:04 PM To: Drum & Bass Arena Discussion List Subject: [dnb-prod] RE: Slightly OT... Hard drive formats 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... 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