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



I found this. I'm sorry I don't have time to download it and try it
myself right now.

http://mboot.muckyfeet.com/install/repartition-gparted/

Jeffrey Martin

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