Another helpful item is to turn off the windows swap file if it
is on the drive you are repartitioning...especially if you
have a large swap file that windows placed way out there
on the partition.
Bambi
Dacia and AzureRose wrote:
> You have to run partition magic from within DOS. Boot
> with your win98 start disk, C:, cd to the correct
> directory and run it from there. It should work fine.
>
> You should defrag your windows partition before you
> resize it however.
>
> Good luck!!
>
> Dacia
> --- John Gist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Paul wrote:
> >
> > > On Sun, 9 Jul 2000, John Gist wrote:
> > >
> > > >I am getting ready to do my first 7.0 install. I
> > have a 6Ghz drive with
> > > >Win 95 which I want to keep. If I install by
> > booting from the #1 CD
> > > >will I be offered the chance to partition for
> > dual boot or will my 95 be
> > > >wiped?
> > >
> > > You will be offered the option to repartition, but
> > you should make sure
> > > beforehand that you have free space
> > (non-partitioned) before you
> > > start. Repartitioning from inside the install will
> > cause your existing
> > > partition to be killed.
> > >
> > > Best tool for you would be partition magic.
> > >
> > > Paul
> > >
> >
> > Thanks for your reply Paul.
> > I should have said in my original post that my 6Gig
> > drive with Win 95 on it
> > is all one partition. That's why I was wondering if
> > what was already on
> > there would be wiped. I bought Partition Magic and
> > have spent the last two
> > weeks trying to get it to work. For some reason it
> > will not work on the
> > Maxtor drive in my Sony computer. When it is told
> > to make changes it drops
> > to dos and dies. Because of that I was hoping that
> > I would be offered the
> > opportunity to do the partitioning from within the
> > install and still have my
> > Win 95 to use as a backup for my main computer.
> >
> > Thanks
> > John
> >
> >
> >
>
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