Forgotten how to partition...
#1
had disk on a win98 pc. Help! (microshaft's is useless in windows and web support is down)
Drive has two partitions - one win/dos and other non-dos (unreadable via pc) and I wanted to junk the non-dos one to reclaim the other half.
I vaguely remember fdisk from early days but that's a while ago ;D
TIA
Apple
Drive has two partitions - one win/dos and other non-dos (unreadable via pc) and I wanted to junk the non-dos one to reclaim the other half.
I vaguely remember fdisk from early days but that's a while ago ;D
TIA
Apple
#2
update 1...
managed to junk non-dos partition (ntfs) but don't know how to get fdisk to make one partition of all drive rather than keep giving me two halves (the old partition sizes)
it won't let me delete primary dos partition (says drive can't be locked ) so can't get out of 614 / 604 sized partitions when I want one 1278Mb partition
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managed to junk non-dos partition (ntfs) but don't know how to get fdisk to make one partition of all drive rather than keep giving me two halves (the old partition sizes)
it won't let me delete primary dos partition (says drive can't be locked ) so can't get out of 614 / 604 sized partitions when I want one 1278Mb partition
Apple
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Apple,
you can only destructively delete the first partition with FDISK - you can't keep the operating system intact and expand the partition. To delete the first partition, create a bootable floppy contaning FDISK and boot from that.
If you do want to keep the existing OS then you will need to install something like Partition Magic (GBP45-99 from Jungle) to do the job.
mb
you can only destructively delete the first partition with FDISK - you can't keep the operating system intact and expand the partition. To delete the first partition, create a bootable floppy contaning FDISK and boot from that.
If you do want to keep the existing OS then you will need to install something like Partition Magic (GBP45-99 from Jungle) to do the job.
mb
#4
boomer,
thanks for that - I'll try the boot disk option to see if I get any joy
I'm nt bothered about any data on the drive - just want to be able to access the complete space on it.
Apple
thanks for that - I'll try the boot disk option to see if I get any joy
I'm nt bothered about any data on the drive - just want to be able to access the complete space on it.
Apple
#5
boomer
great suggestion - the boot disk for fdisk finally worked and after a few blue screens of death, the pc seems to have sorted out the drive letters and the new drive is readable
thanks
Apple
great suggestion - the boot disk for fdisk finally worked and after a few blue screens of death, the pc seems to have sorted out the drive letters and the new drive is readable
thanks
Apple
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ktulu
thanks for the offer of a disk - as it's sorted now I'm ok for a bit and hopefully won't need to do any more sortingout until I upgrade the pc ian approx 6 months.
had a look on amazon and it's about 33 quid for v7 - could be tempted later
btw is ntfs windows nt file system, i.e. just applies to pcs running nt?
thanks
Apple
thanks for the offer of a disk - as it's sorted now I'm ok for a bit and hopefully won't need to do any more sortingout until I upgrade the pc ian approx 6 months.
had a look on amazon and it's about 33 quid for v7 - could be tempted later
btw is ntfs windows nt file system, i.e. just applies to pcs running nt?
thanks
Apple
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