hey Al, so are you saying that you used fdisk to resize the partitions on a disk
without losing the data on them??? i didn't think that could be done.
thanks much
on this subject, a question for whomever: i'm thinking it is a better thing to start
with fdisk (or similar) and and blank drive and partition it up that way as opposed to
using Partition Magic or something similar to slice & dice existing drives with data
on them. i say "better" in regards to providing better performance. you folks think
it makes a difference or not?? thanks for you input.
Adrian Smith
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I have accomplished and the same task that you are conjecturing over. Adrian
is correct in that you have to firt defrag your haddrive (run an error test
first!). ONce you have did this, you can either use fdisk in DOS, which I have
also did successfully, to repartition your windoze drive or do it all from
diskdrake. I took the added precaution of writing down my harddrive
"properties" (the actual size of information currently occupied on my
harddrive.) so that I could give windows two GBs of harddrive space. The rest
I split with my Windoze 2000 Server (which I rarely frequent.. o O (Note to
thyself: remove Windoze 2000) and Linux 7.1 which I adore and love.
I hope my input was both informative and encouraging. I have two boxes that I
run primarily Linux. One box I use as my "R & D" box for all sorts of programs
and hardware configurations. The other box, is my baby that I call my "Lady"
:) She is the dynamic smooth and powerful result of my labors with "Brutus",
my Research and Development box.>)
--Al
