Try using partition magic
The best program for controling your partitions. You can do every kind of
event about partitions with that program.
I have the trial version (!) of it and can send you from ICQ
My ICQ UIN is 6090411.
On Tuesday 12 June 2001 02:45 am, Tyrell wrote:
> 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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