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 ----------------------------------------------------------- [log in to unmask] ----------------------------------------------------------- PCBUILD maintains hundreds of useful files for download visit our download web page at: http://nospin.com/pc/files.html