18 Feb
2003
18 Feb
'03
2:27 p.m.
On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, Frank Schickel wrote:
Don't know if you've ever tried Partition
Magic from PowerQuest,
but I would consider it an essential utility when working with
HDs. It will repartition on-the-fly and convert partitions
*both* ways FAT16<-->FAT32 and FAT32<-->NTFS, although you
lose the extended attributes when converting to FAT from
NTFS.
I bought it specificaly to change an <2G NTFS partition from NTFS to
FAT16, in order to convert an NT4 machine into NT4/Win98 dual bootable.
It said that it was doing it, but never did. I tried rather a lot of
variations, such as resizing first, etc. but it never worked.
OTOH, I have used it quite happily for resizing partitions on several
machines.