Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!uunet!zephyr.ens.tek.com!uw-beaver!cornell!vax5.cit.cornell.edu!hd7x From: hd7x@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (Sanjay Aiyagari) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: Hard Disk Partitioning Message-ID: <1990Dec10.002408.1493@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> Date: 10 Dec 90 04:24:08 GMT References: <50079@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> Distribution: comp Lines: 12 In article <50079@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU>, v053qgzj@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (David M Snyderman) writes: > Hello again, all! > I'm running a Gateway 386-25 with Dos 4.01 and a 42MB disk partitioned into > about 16 and 26 MBs. I would like to change the relative size of the > partitions-- to about 6 and 36 MBs. Can any one suggest how to do this > without re-formatting? Unfortunately, no. If you change the size of a partition, you must reformat the drive. As far as I'm concerned, with DOS 4.01 I'd just make one large partition as drive C:. Sanjay Aiyagari (hd7x@vax5.cit.cornell.edu)