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[amgg888]

Hey I'm running win98 on a 40g HD. (one fat32 partition) Can someone give me step-by-step instructions on how to create a 50/50 partition for installing win2000? (I should create a partition, right?) And can I partition it without losing any current data?
Thanks!

 

[Comtech]

You need a partition manager to repartition it without losing anything, otherwise fdisk will work, but you will lose it all.
Once you've created another partition, start the install for win2000, and when prompted, DO NOT select "upgrade". Cheers,
Jim

http://members.cnx.net/reboot/

 

[amgg888]

Do you have a suggestion on partition manager?

 

[osuman]

I use Partition Magic 6.0 made by Powerquest. I would recommend it as an excellent program. You can get the full version in a retail box at

http://www.pricewatch.com

for $49 including shipping. Justin

Feel free to email me at:
beckham@mailbox.orst.edu

"3 out of 4 people make up 75% of the population."

 

[Comtech]

There are a couple of free ones.
You can find them (at least one of them) on my site.
It's called "Ranish Partition Manager". Cheers,
Jim

http://members.cnx.net/reboot/

 

[amgg888]

Hey I downloaded a Partition manager called "Partition Resizer". It says it will partition without losing any data. I ran it but It still shows that I have one drive with one partition of 19.5 GB. (I tried to divide the drive in half the best I could, its 40GB) I've tried running fdisk to set the other partition but it says there isnt any room. Any help on this??

P.S. I'm just glad windows is still funtional!
- AMGV84 -

 

[Comtech]

You've managed to resize the partition to ~20 gig, now you need to run the partition prog again to reclaim the rest of the space, then you'll have to format it before windows will see it. Cheers,
Jim

http://members.cnx.net/reboot/

 

[amgg888]

I already tried it again but it only shows the one partition, how can I get the other one??
- AMGV84 -

 

[spacekowboy]

im curious, if you use an old fdisk floppy, does it see them both?

X-)

 

[amgg888]

Fdisk only sees the one. (Its the one with all my data.)
Oh and the partition program for some reason says the partition is messed up or something.
- AMGV84 -

 

[Comtech]

I've never run across this. I usually just run fdisk, create an extended partition/logical drive (that assigns a drive letter) without messing with your primary partition, then format the thing. Cheers,
Jim

http://members.cnx.net/reboot/

 

[amgg888]

hmm. ok. I'll work some more on it and see what I get.
- AMGV84 -

 

[amgg888]

Hey I got it! I thought maybe the partition manager didnt partition it right so I told it to partition it to 40GB again. (the drives full size) Then i tried again to partition it into two pieces. THIS time it worked and it showed up in fdisk so I could partition the extended drive and so on.

Thanks for the help everyone!
- AMGV84 -