Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 13:45:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Nicolas Blais <eletech@netrover.com> Cc: ranish@intercom.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Partition problem Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980713134452.25570O-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <35A8D850.5D23C1EB@netrover.com>
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Removing -newbies, inappropriate list. On Sun, 12 Jul 1998, Nicolas Blais wrote: > I have used to have just one partition with Win95, and I wanted freeBSD > so I shorted my windows partition of 300 megs and everything is write in > FDISK, it reports that the FAT-32 now has 800 megs. > The problem is that windows still thinks it has 1100 megs and I can't > install FreeBSD. I know a format would do but I don't want to loose > everything, is there a way to tell windows it has only 800 megs and not > 1100 megs? You probably shrank a logical disk in your extended partition, but didn't shrink the extended partition itself. Generally you'll need a special tool for this, either Partition Resizer (which is in the tools/ directory on ftp.freebsd.org or the CD) or Partition Magic (commerical but quite good). Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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