... : it is possible to non-destructively repartition hard disks. Notes : Before ... , this procedure only works with NON-EXTENDED DOS partitions, < 64K logical ... bit, 5 = extended DOS, 8 = NON-DOS (might be usable) 5 ...

linux-activists - Drew Eckhardt - May 2 1992 - 15:45

> >> it is possible to non-destructively repartition under Messy-Loss. > > > >How can you repartition ms-dos drives without loosing info? > > [...] In princip~ql it's easy. In practice, it's difficult. > >Could ...

linux-activists - David H. West - Apr 3 1992 - 01:30

... writes: (Somebody stripped his/her name....) >> it is possible to non-destructively repartition under Messy-Loss. > >How can you repartition ms-dos drives without loosing info? There are a few things to be ...

linux-activists - Rogier Wolff - Apr 4 1992 - 10:22

... >> >Hi everyone, >I think this non-destructive partitioning is the route I want to take. I've > ... question but there's probably more repartitioning going on here >than the average ... if it is code that says "Non-system disk" or something similar. ...

linux-activists - William Michael Lye - Apr 9 1992 - 11:29

... on your new partition(s). No problem. > >Adam > Hi everyone, I think this non-destructive partitioning is the route I want to ... of a DOS question but there's probably more repartitioning going on here than the average DOS newsgroup ...

linux-activists - Anthony Frey - Apr 8 1992 - 13:58

I remember seeing someone post an announcement of a program that does non-destructive repartitioning. Could someone pleawse tell me where to find it?

linux-activists - Le Mauvais Sophiste - Apr 25 1993 - 06:23

I heard something a while ago about some program that could repartition your hard disk without deleting everything on it, but just writing a new smaller FAT. Of course the files had to be on the lower part of the disk. As I have ~160 megs on my HD, I ...

linux-activists - Daniel Brahneborg - Apr 30 1992 - 13:25

... .umu.se> dvldbg@pippin.cs.umu.se (Daniel Brahneborg) writes: >I heard something a while ago about some program that could >repartition your hard disk without deleting everything on it, >but just writing a new smaller FAT. Of course the files had to >be ...

linux-activists - Wen-Chun Ni - May 1 1992 - 22:02

> very last few clusters of the hard disk as being unmovable and owned by a file > called 'image.idx'. I believe this has something to do with an extra copy of > the DOS 5.0 boot image. The question is, does DOS absolutely need this file in > that

linux-activists - Jim Belesiu - Apr 8 1992 - 17:32

In article <1992Apr8.125839.5474@doug.cae.wisc.edu> anthony@cae.wisc.edu (Anthony Frey) writes: }... I'm running DOS 5.0 and Norton for DOS 5.0 and the Norton optimizer reports the }very last few clusters of the hard disk as being unmovable and owned by

linux-activists - Greg Lee - Apr 8 1992 - 22:58