Yes, you'll be doing it in 3 steps:

 

1. Shrink the FAT32 partition

2. Slide the FAT32 partition to the "top" of the drive

3. Expand the NTFS partition to use the free space

 

Carl

 

From: Lee Douglas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 11:35 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: NTFS and FAT32 on the same HD

 

Carl,

 

Thanks! I was hoping to hear from you on this.

 

Just to be clear, BootIT NG should permit me to shrink the FAT32 partition
and make that extra space available for the NTFS partition, all on the
single HD - right?

 



 

On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 11:11 AM, Carl Houseman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

+1 - just decline the installation when prompted, you'll be dumped into
maintenance mode where you can shrink, expand, and slide partitions hither
and yon.

Don't expect blistering performance.  Since no drivers are needed, all disk
I/O is done with BIOS calls and some BIOS can be very very slow...

BTW on the repeated mentions of gparted here - I tried the gparted live CD
recently and used it to shrink a Vista system partition.  When it was done
Vista wouldn't boot.  A Vista recovery CD was able to fix that.  To be fair,
I haven't tried the exact same operation on Vista with BootItNG yet but I
bet it would have been OK.  Never had any problems when BootItNG modified
system partitions for 2003/XP/2000.

Carl


-----Original Message-----
From: ron friedman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 10:31 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: re: NTFS and FAT32 on the same HD

Try BootIT NG (www.terabyteunlimited.com <http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/>
)  Even with the trialware, you can resize the partitions for a bootable
diskette.

-Ron Friedman
 Northlake PLD



 


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