I have a Win98-2 machine with one hard drive – fat 32. It has an extended partition with 2 logical drives, D and E. Both drives are empty. C contains all the software and data. I would like to eliminate drive E and format D to the full capacity of the extended partition. Can I do that with F-disk without messing up the C drive? C is a 14G partition and D is 2G, E is 500M.
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WSLeif
AskWoody LoungerMarch 19, 2003 at 7:42 am #662202I think the answer is yes!
255867 – How to Use the Fdisk Tool and the Format Tool to Partition or Repartition a Hard Disk
will give you the ‘official’ instructions, plus you should find plenty of help at fdisk.com.Personally, I always felt a little uneasy using fdisk, but never managed to achieve the disaster I (unjustifiably) feared! Take your time, back-up the important stuff and shout if you need clarification on anything.
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AskWoody LoungerMarch 22, 2003 at 4:58 pm #663233Ok, thanks for the advice. I thought I could do that without deleting c. I’ve used F disk many times but never when I wanted to save anything. I am to cheap to buy Partition Magic just for this one time. I have an old version of PM but it doesn’t want to work with fat32. I’ll give it a try after reading the links provided. Thanks again.
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