Re: Hard drive partition

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From: Ed Leibrick
Date: Sat, 27 Sep 1997 00:00

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Just checked - looks like the shop installed it as a fat16
When I get a chance, I will create it as a fat32 and see what happens
And yes, fips was the beast that did the deed.

George Durbridge wrote:

> Ed,
>
> Is the 'supplied partition modifier' fips.exe ?  What sort of Win95
> partition: vfat, or fat32 ?  fips seems to work fine on DOS
> partitions,
> but I wonder how it will go on the variants.
>
> George
>
> Ed Leibrick (leibhold@ozemail.com.au) wrote:
> : Yeah, works like a dream.
> : Got a laptop with a 2G hard drive with WIN95 installed.
> : Was looking forward to blowing away the win95 to re-partition
> thedrive
> : but
> : lo and behold the supplied partition modifier worked like a dream
> and
> : removed 1 G from the back of the WIN95 partition for linux. Neat.
> : Now got dual boot witl LILO for linux or WIN95.
>
> : Ed.
>
> --
> /* George Durbridge  Melbourne, Victoria, Australia */
> /* tel (03) 9280 3390            fax (03) 9280 3355 */

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