Partition question

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Guest · #1 Post by **Guest** » Mon Nov 22, 2004 11:28 am

I just got a new T42. I have been reading over some of the posts here but am still not sure the best way to go. I think I want to leave the hidden partition as is - and just create a D partition out of the free space on my current C partition.

I have PM. Question - do I just fire up PM from floppies and make the change? Or should I first go into the BIOS and unhide the partition before making the change and then rehide the partition after? Thanks in advance for any info.

lfeagan · #2 Post by **lfeagan** » Mon Nov 22, 2004 11:50 am

When I used PM 8.0 I could see the partition just fine. It shouldn't be hidden via the BIOS anymore by default.

Guest · #3 Post by **Guest** » Mon Nov 22, 2004 12:13 pm

Ok - thanks. Will go ahead and start PM from floppies - and make the change.

Guest · #4 Post by **Guest** » Mon Nov 22, 2004 1:14 pm

Yikes - just remembered that the T42 doesn't have a FDD. First machine I have owned that doesn't - didn't think it would be a problem. I will not run PM from within Windows to do this operation - saw a friend do it - on another T42 and he hosed his hard drive. Is there any other option, short of springing for the external FDD?

gcchatel · #5 Post by **gcchatel** » Mon Nov 22, 2004 1:47 pm

I've run partition magic inside of windows several times with no incident, all windows does is tell partition magic to run next time you reboot to make the changes. Should not be that different from doing it from the floppies.

Gael

#6 Post by **carbon_unit** » Mon Nov 22, 2004 7:58 pm

Or put the files on a bootable CD, boot to dos and then partition.

Guest · #7 Post by **Guest** » Mon Nov 22, 2004 8:02 pm

Thanks for the idea - that sounds good to me.

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