You can use fdisk to delete or create logical drives in the
extended partition without damaging data in the primary
partition. That's what I had to do to make room for linux. I
started out with C:,D:,E:, and F:. I copied everything onto C:,
and deleted D:,E:, and F: then created a new 2GB D:, and left
the rest for linux. I then copied the stuff I had moved to C:
back to D:. The only problem I had was that Win95 still thinks
the CDROM is G: and it's now E:
My bios recognized the 6.4GB drive, where Karen's wouldn't
recognize her 2GB drive so I'm not sure it will be that easy for
her. Fdisk seems to see the whole drive so maybe it will
work.It would be best to have everything backed up in case it
does lose the data.
On 28 Oct 00, at 1:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> At 11:13 PM 10/27/00 +0400, you wrote:
>
> >2, after seeing this, i took a look at fdisk
> >according to fdisk, i have a primary partition and an extended
> >one with the following logical drive
> >d: unknown 126mg, 33%
> >
> >that is paraphrased,
> >and the real kicker?
> >
> >the remaining size of the extended partition is 1508 mg or so.
> >
> >what is all this?
>
> > it says that the primary partition is at
> >100%
> >am i losingmy mind, and what can i do withthis?
> >i mean, if i tried to let fdisk play with the rest of the extend
> >partition, what would happen?
> >losing my heads, cylenders, and sectors over this lol
> >kare
>
> Well, I would suppose you'd lose all currently existing data since fdisk
> wipes everything while it creates partitions. I'd also say you could
> create a series of smaller logical drives within the extended partition to
> use up all that free space. If you had partition magic and enough RAM to
> run it, you could use up that space without wrecking your data.
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