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li@athena.cs.uga.edu (Jialin li) writes:

>In article <28081@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> hans@pine.circa.ufl.edu writes:
>>Hi,
>>
>>I've got a 85 Mbyte partition running under DOS 4.0.  Now I would like 
>>to change that to a 65 Mb and a 20 Mb partition.  I can make sure that 
>>the higher 20 Mb of the harddisk sectors are empty.
>>My guts tells me that is should be possible to change the partition 
>>and still keep all the data on the 65 Mb partition.  Is this possible? 
>>Are there any tools?

>It depends. Sometimes you can do it, sometimes you cannot. I tried
>it once, and it worked. I backed up everyting before I did that.

I tried too and lost everything!
The reason was that Dos's FDISK overwrites the start of every
partition that it changes with 0's. Try it with a different
partitioning software but don't try it on a computer with data
on it that you still need.
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