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Article #3220Re-partitioning a disk on a PC
From: Mason marc allen (301)688-5344
Date: Sun, 30 Jan 1994 17:13
Date: Sun, 30 Jan 1994 17:13
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I have a PC with a 230 MB hard drive. It is partitioned in about half for MS-Windows and SCO Unix. I'm running out of room in my DOS partition and would like to re-partition the disk to give more to DOS since I rarely use SCO. I'd still like to keep my SCO partition because I do use it occasionally. The DOS partition is the first. The system boots to SCO unless I type dos at the : prompt. Is there a way to re-partition a disk without having to re-load all the software? Assuming I have enough free space on the SCO partition, I would think you could do this. I realize that the space in the SCO partition would have to be contiguous. Is there any software out there, public domain or otherwise that de-fragments a SCO partition? Maybe the problem would be that SCO is loaded in the lower part of its partition. Is it possible to just extend the DOS partition without re-loading it, let it wipe out the SCO partition and I could re-load SCO. This would be a LOT easier than having to reload all my DOS software. Does anyone know of any software that does this?
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