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From: li@athena.cs.uga.edu (Jialin li)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Changing partition without losing data?
Message-ID: <1991Apr22.144038.8612@athena.cs.uga.edu>
Date: 22 Apr 91 14:40:38 GMT
References: <28081@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU>
Organization: University of Georgia, Athens
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In article <28081@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> hans@pine.circa.ufl.edu writes:
>Hi,
>
>I've got a 85 Mbyte partition running under DOS 4.0.  Now I would like 
>to change that to a 65 Mb and a 20 Mb partition.  I can make sure that 
>the higher 20 Mb of the harddisk sectors are empty.
>My guts tells me that is should be possible to change the partition 
>and still keep all the data on the 65 Mb partition.  Is this possible? 
>Are there any tools?

It depends. Sometimes you can do it, sometimes you cannot. I tried
it once, and it worked. I backed up everyting before I did that.