I have been through hell in the last couple
of days. My Windows notebook computer has two 35 gig partitions
and I would like to convert it to one 70 gig. I tried Symantec
Norton
Partition Magic but it could not recognize the hard disk for
some strange reason. See the attached list of hardware.
For awhile there it would not boot
from the hard disk. I screwed around with it and screwed around
with it real late last night using the Part. Magic boot CD
and I finally got it to boot up in Windows XP off the hard disk.
Blake helped out a alot.
It will not boot from a USB floppy either. The only kind
of floppy you can get for it. The so called rescue disk don't work.
I backed it up using a 350 gig USB NetDisk. Worked great.
Back in the old days fdisk came with DOS and this was trivial.
Any suggestions will be appreciated.
--
Paul Lamar ...No rotor no motor.
I found this:
"The
*fips* program is included in most Linux distributions. The
commercial partition manager ``Partition Magic'' also has a similar
facility but with a nicer interface. Please do remember that
partitioning is dangerous. Make
/sure/ you have a recent backup of any
important data before you try changing partition sizes ``on the fly''.
The GNU program
*parted* can resize other types of partitions as well as
MS-DOS, but sometimes in a limited manner. Consult the
*parted*
documentation before using it, better safe than sorry."
Jeffrey Martin
How do these work Jeff? Do you stick them in the CD drive and boot
off the CD and then run them? I assume you are booting
Linux when you do that. I have no problem with that.
Just curios about how a Linux ap can run on a Windows computer.
I assume the partitioning info is stored on the hard disk
along with the master boot record.
I know Norton boots DR DOS.
Paul Lamar ...No rotor no motor.
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