In <[log in to unmask]>, on 01/16/00
at 04:09 AM, BILL RAY <[log in to unmask]> said:
>Is there any way that I can repartition my 3.2gig HD, which is
>now partitioned into a 2.0 & a 1.2 gig HD?
>I am using Windows95 (original build) and recall reading once (a
>long time ago) about a utility which allows you to collapse both
>partitions into one large one - without losing data/files and
>which also reduces cluster size significantly. I know that I
>could accomplish the same thing by installing Windows98, but I
>would like to avoid that, since I have heard bad things about
>Windows98 and it has taken me 2 years to get Windows95 to
>function properly (no crashes and only a few 'hangs' every other
>day or so). Perhaps I should switch to Linux or WindowsNT. I
>have WindowsNT 4.0 at the office and it has its own quirks,
>hardly an improvement over Window95.
>Any advice, opinions or anecdotes would be greatly appreciated.
>Thanks.
>Bill Ray
I just used Partition Magic Ver.5 to resize the partitions on a
3.2G drive without problems. My configuration is BootManager,
C:(PRIMARY FAT dos boot), C:(PRIMARY HPFS os/2 boot), D:(Logical
HPFS OS/2 boot), E:(HPFS) F:(HPFS). All partitions except Boot
Manager were changed in the process. I'm now installing Win95 in
place of OS/2 on the second C: partition. I will then have to go
back with Partition Magic, or the OS/2 FDISK and re-enable the
Boot Manager because Win95 disables it during install.
I'm sticking with Win95 because 1. it's on a 486. 2. I'm only
allocating 256MB and 3. I'll hardly ever use it except to support
some friends that i set up with it.
I highly recommend getting PM. You can get PM v.4 from some
surplus/close-out places pretty cheaply.
have fun,
jan lambert
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