A tech friend in Buffalo suggested Partition Magic or just moving all the
programs and data from the drive and then doing an Fdisk from scratc - just
what I hope to avoid having to do.  He suggested the latter after he used
PM about two years ago, and the computer he did it on slowed down
appreciably.  When he later removed PM, the computer speeded up.  This
leads me to wonder if PM really changes partition size or if it adds an
overlay to the HD requiring extra computing for each disk access, somewhat
in the manner of the overlays that disk compression software like Stacker
used.  Stacked drives got bigger and very much slower.

Dave Ralph

At 08:46 AM 11/13/03 -0800, you wrote:
>The problem is not in FAT 32, but in the conversion. Your FAT 16 was unable
>to support larger partitions, so you had a smaller one defined. When you
>converted to FAT 32, the capability for larger partitions was there, but the
>original definition of the partition remained. To change the partition
>without losing your data is what Partition Magic or Ranish Partition Manager
>are all about. Note that any dynamic repartitioning does carry some risk of
>data loss.
>
>Peter
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > My thanks to all who replied.  A copy of Partition Magic has been
> > ordered.  I probably should have done that in the first
> > place.  One wonders
> > why MS's not so useful utility is supplied in such a way that
> > it does not
> > allow one to use the large size of the newer HDs which is one
> > of the major
> > reasons for going to FAT 32 in the first place.
> >
> > Dave Ralph

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