Re: Expanding FAT to NTFS partition under NT

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From: John Beardmore
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 1996 00:00

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In article <846179843snz129.os2.7@horizon.co.uk>, Richard Ashton
<as@horizon.co.uk> writes
>In article <Pt$qYHAUSUbyEwqE@wookie.demon.co.uk>
>           wookie@wookie.demon.co.uk "John Beardmore" writes:
>
>} I have a 4 gig drive with an NT bootable 2 gig FAT partition.
>}
>} I know I can have NT convert it to an NTFS partition, but how do I get
>} it to use all 4 gig of the drive ?
>
>You don't. Remember DOS FDISK.

Frequently and with regret !

I guess I'd kind assumed that if NT could support 4 gig partitions,
there'd be a way to boot from ones that big !  Oh well...


> Pity Partition Magic is an OS/2
>program. :)

:)

Indeed.


J/.
-- 
John Beardmore

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