Hello.
When you say a second box you want to say a Second partition, true?
I think you have too defragmented your partition.
To resize a partition, first you must defrag it, in order to have all data
at the beginning. And then resize it safely.
Yes, You can use Partition Magic. Be carefull and perhaps make a backup
before resize.
The DOS file system use a FAT (File Allocation Table) to indicate the
secuence of clusters (a cluster is a group of sectors) of your partition
correspond to each archive. The number of cluster of your partition is 2^32
(FAT32), each file of size greater tha zero occupied one cluster at least,
for example a file of 55 bytes is on a cluster of for example 16 Kb, wasting
more than 15 Kb of space. LBA (Logical Block Adress) is an standard invented
to manage hard disk greater than 512 Mb, that was the limited for the before
standard.
Bye.
----- Original Message -----
From: Carlos Alberto Berardi Gonz�lez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: newbie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, June 11, 2001 6:38 PM
Subject: [newbie] partition problem
Hi all
I'm trying to install LM8.0 on a second box, but when diskdrake asks about
what to do, it says it can't resize my windows98 partition, which appears to
be fat32-lba mapped (what is that?)
is it a software problem, the disk is to fragmented, or it has to do with
the
BIOS?
can i use partition magic to try it?
Thanks
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