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From: tporczyk@na.excelan.com (Tony Porczyk)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: FDISK
Message-ID: <1991Mar27.170606.18850@novell.com>
Date: 28 Mar 91 21:50:00 GMT
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References: <1991Mar23.041821.29165@cs.mcgill.ca> <1991Mar27.133529.1990@wiis.wang.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1991 17:06:06 GMT

In article <1991Mar27.133529.1990@wiis.wang.com> garyf@wiis.wang.com (Gary Field) writes:
>storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER) writes:
>>Can I make a LOGICAL drive on my hard drive using FDISK when there the
>>drive is already half filled, or should I back  everything up and work from
>
>I'm not sure what you mean by a LOGICAL drive. If you mean a partition, when

I guess he means a logical drive in an extended partition. Yes, you can
do this, but the data in the extended partition will be gone, certainly
in the two drives affected by the change (you want to resize the logical
drives, right?).
Quick Disclaimer - you do not mean Primary Partition, correct?

Tony