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Article #13934Re: Changing partition without losing data?
From: Jialin li
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1991 14:40
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1991 14:40
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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.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!emory!athena.cs.uga.edu!li From: li@athena.cs.uga.edu (Jialin li) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Changing partition without losing data? Message-ID: <1991Apr22.144038.8612@athena.cs.uga.edu> Date: 22 Apr 91 14:40:38 GMT References: <28081@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> Organization: University of Georgia, Athens Lines: 12