partitioning a drive/W98

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Author: mike_s
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 00:00

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I want to partition the 4 gig drive on my Sony laptop, but I really
don't want to have to go rummaging around in DOS, neither do I want to
lose any of the data that's already on there (about 2 gig's worth).

I know Partition Magic 4 will do the job, but it's seems a bit of a
waste of money just for this one single job, so does anyone know any
easy-peasy ways of doing it that don't involve hours of staring at a
load of C:/ stuff?

Cheers

Mike
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Re: partitioning a drive/W98

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Author: Dion L Heap
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 00:00

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mike_s <mike@nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:bbvKHPAX2Ej3Ew$O@urban75.demon.co.uk...
> I want to partition the 4 gig drive on my Sony laptop, but I really
> don't want to have to go rummaging around in DOS, neither do I want to
> lose any of the data that's already on there (about 2 gig's worth).
>
> I know Partition Magic 4 will do the job, but it's seems a bit of a
> waste of money just for this one single job, so does anyone know any
> easy-peasy ways of doing it that don't involve hours of staring at a
> load of C:/ stuff?
>
> Cheers
>
> Mike

You could take a look at :- http://members.xoom.com/zeleps/

regards,



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Re: partitioning a drive/W98

#685

Author: Michael Salem
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 00:00

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mike@nospam.demon.co.uk "mike_s" wrote:

> I know Partition Magic 4 will do the job, but it's seems a bit of a
> waste of money just for this one single job, so does anyone know any
> easy-peasy ways of doing it that don't involve hours of staring at a
> load of C:/ stuff?

There were a couple of programs around, either freeware or shareware. 
One was called FIP; I have an archive file FIP.LZH, but I don't 
remember if I rearchived and renamed it. You could try an Altavista 
search for fip*  The one I looked at dates from 1995.

I'd always make a backup before using any of these utilities.

HTH,
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Michael Salem

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