[ltp] Wasted Free Space

[Cydny Fire Eisner]

> On Mon, 27 Mar 2000 15:12:36 -0500, Ernest A. James wrote:
> 
> >As far as I know Alex, Partition Magic 5 also has a DOS version that works
> >well - in fact I think that's what I used a few months ago to repartion my
> >disk.
> >
> >Ernest
> >***
> Thanks, Ernest.  But wouldn't I need to have dos already installed on
> the hard drive?

I've used Ranish's Partition manager with great success.

Its a small DOS program & its free.  You don't need Dos installed on your hard 
drive, but you do need to have a DOS bootable floppy.  The thing I find invaluable 
about it, is that you can save your MBR to a file & reload it to your system if 
your modifications don't pan out.


You can get Partition Manager here:
http://www.users.intercom.com/~ranish/part/


The following link might also be of some help.
http://www.jacobsen.sdn.dk/fdisk/


I have a partition rescue disk that has partition manager, a disk editor & the 
following DOS programs:
Command.com
fdisk.exe
chkdsk.exe
edit.com
io.sys
msdos.sys

If I run into problems, I just boot from this floppy, launch partion manager & 
reinstall the old MBR & I'm good to go.

Regards, 
Cydny


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