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.


It's been awhile but some linux distributions come with utilities
that you can run on windows or dos to prepare your windows computer
for the linux distribution.

Most linux install CD's can be used as a fix-it disk and there
are some CD images out there specifically designed to be fix-it
disks. I'm assuming I was using parted and the linux version of
fdisk that last time I installed Linux but of course it was buried
under an installation program and I never used it directly.

It looks like you can run fdisk or xfdisk on a freedos CD and then
recover from your backup.

OR

run fips on FreeDOS

OR

Use parted running on linux (from a fixit cd or some other drive).

Jeffrey Martin



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