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| 28012 | 2001-12-18 20:36:00 | Pentium III 500, 128mg RAM Was running Win98SE on a 13G HD. Loaded Linux Mandrake 8.0 on a separate partition (using diskDrake - part of installation) leaving: W98SE on 8mg LM 8.0 on 5mg LILO (Text based) booting W98 by default/LM as an option. Yesterday when trying to boot Linux, it wouldn't go past the initial screen. No probs I think (as I'm just playing with it at the moment) I'll simply re-install LM 8.0 over the top and start over... Problem, when the install got to the partitioning section it tells me that I hav a 13 gig HD and that diskDrake cannot recognise the partition tables - continue at your own risk! W98 still knows it only has 8gig and checking C:\ in Dos tells me 8 gig also. What I think I need to do is go back and extend my W98 partition out to 13gig again (somehow deleting the Linux partition). Are there any freeware tools to work with partitions on a non-destructive basis. (Yes I've backed up my important data etc but I've really only just got W98 working nicely after lots of tweaks so I would prefer not to have to re-install that!) Any ideas/help gratefully received Ta :^) Shroeder |
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| 28013 | 2001-12-18 22:39:00 | Hi, I haven't used any but if you go to www.download.com and search under 'partition' you will find some freeware tools that should do the trick. JM |
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| 28014 | 2001-12-19 00:56:00 | Gets messy, doesn't it. Either extend the W98 partition out then split it again, or write a table with a W98 of 8GB, and the rest unallocated. I like to give linux its area as unallocated. There is a free nondestructive partition editor in the GNU archive. I have not used it, but the GNU stuff is very good in general --- that's what Linux is built with. It is a *nix programme, but there is a bootable floppy image at: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/parted/bootdisk/partboot.img You can write the image to a floppy using RAWRITE.EXE (which should be on your Linux install disk (in a directory called 'dosutils' or something like that). While you are at the gnu site, you might want to get the *nix version too, in the 'parted' directory (one level up). It's a tar.gz file. The DOS version of tar at: ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/arcers/tar320s.zip should extract it for you (The *nix 'parted-1.4.21.tar.gz' file {which it pays to rename in the download to, say, 'parted.tgz') has an FAQ, and other documentation among all the sources). Probably, just booting the floppy and typing 'parted --help' will give you enough info to run it. It is said to be nondestructive, and reasonably sensible about not doing stupid things, even if told to. You could use your rescue disk for Linux (you DID make one, didn't you?) ... that would let you use the linux 'fdisk'. It lets you look at and modify the partition table, but does not do anything permanent until it is told to write it out. |
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| 28015 | 2001-12-19 05:10:00 | Yes, there is a free partition manager available. Search for 'Ranish'. It's a very small download & can be run from a bootable floppy. Get version 2.4.00. Simply copy the PART.EXE file to the floppy, reboot your computer with the floppy & type PART at the prompt. You will see a partition table which you can edit to your hearts desire. If you want to register it, send a postcard, if not, you've a license for 10 years & by that time, it'll be too out of date to use. A special note of caution... print the first screen before you make any changes to your HDD. Use the Printscreen button on your keyboard to send a screen dump to your printer. if you muck it up, just re-create the screen exactly as it is in the printout. | Guest (0) | ||
| 28016 | 2001-12-19 20:45:00 | Thanks for these suggestions guys. I tried the linux one (but quite frankly am such a linux newbie that other than booting into the disk, I didn't achieve anything). With Ranish, I tried the simulation but kept getting strange things happening (like it putting a new small partition between the boot sector and the first partition when I tried to size the first partition!!) I will keep practising on this before going further I think - pity the help files on this are written for people that have partitioned before :^( Interestingly though, when I booted into the working Ranish (just to check what partitions it saw on my disk) it showed exactly what I would have expected. A FAT32LBA of 8+gig and a Linux ext?? of 4 to 5gig. Why then does my Mandrake install (diskDrake) show one single partition of 12gig and it doesn't even recognise it as FAT32?? Go figure... Once again, thanks for the ideas |
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