FreeLists / arachne / [arachne] Re: Multi boot with windows XP

[Jason Dodd <jasorn@xxxxxxxxx>]

Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!

Correction:  I meant you can't do that with gparted.  You can but you 
have to copy the partition, reformat and copy to the reformatted 
version.  it's an extra step but not a big deal if you have space.

Even if you have to monkey around on just one disk, if the disk is less 
than half full, you can resize it to half size, format the other half to 
the new partition type, copy over the first have to the sencond, delect 
the first, and resize the new half to take up the whole disk.  And 
variations on the theme.

But, I'm telling you, gparted live is THE way to go.

Lester V wrote:
> Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!
>
> 1) Partition Commander allows converting NTFS back to FAT32. If Gnome Partition Editor 
> can do it, so much the better because it's free. When I checked last time a few months back 
> Partition Magic didn't offer this feature.
>
> http://gparted.sourceforge.net/
>
> http://www.v-com.com/product/Partition_Commander_Home.html
>
> http://www.partitionmagic.com/home_homeoffice/products/overview.jsp?pcid=sp&pvid=pm8
> 0
>
> http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/diskdirector/
>
> 2) I have several NTFS logical drives and one FAT32 logical drive visible in WinXP. That 
> FAT32 drive becomes drive D when I boot to FreeDOS and most DOS os files are there. 
> The only files on DOS drive C are:
>
> Kernel.sys
> Command.com
> Config.sys
> Autoexec.bat
>
> I didn't want to put Command.com and Autoexec.bat on drive D to avoid any possible 
> conflicts with WinXP. Some conflicts are there anyway. I have just opened in WinXP "dos" 
> console with Edit command one of the batch files originally created in DOS on that Fat32 
> drive, and to my surprise it had FreeDOS and not XP interface.
>
> Lester
>
>                   Arachne at FreeLists                  
> -- Arachne, The Premier GPL Web Browser/Suite for DOS --
>
>
>   

                 Arachne at FreeLists                  
-- Arachne, The Premier GPL Web Browser/Suite for DOS --