DS: "If I were trying to increase 500 mb to 4 gig I'd do it this way. I'd use Norton Ghost(2001) to copy the 500mb partition to a suitable formatted cf chip.
In reality, here is what I do: My setup is a 320gb hd. 1st partition is 2.0gb for Compaq DOS 5.0 (all my machines are compaq sff desktops); 2nd partition is 9g, for FreeDOS, The rest of hard drive contains Ubuntu 14.04 LXDE. I boot to the LXDE (remove unwanted files-usually downloads and test installations of shareware that I dont't like, then I zip my dos systems, then boot into xfdisk and the boot manager, and reformat and then back to the LXDE to unzip my archived systems on the new partition. The final step is to update grub. I've done this several times with numerous drives and I''ve never had data loss . DF On 10/22/14, Dale E Sterner <sunbeam...@juno.com> wrote: > If I were trying to increase 500 mb to 4 gig I'd do it this way. > I'd use Norton Ghost(2001) to copy the 500mb partition to a suitable > formatted cf chip. > I'd then use fdisk to remove the old partitions and fdisk to make a new > 4gig > partition. Remember to make the partition active and to then run > fdisk/mbr to get > a fresh mbr then format the drive. Then I'd use Ghost to copy the cf chip > back to the harddrive or > just buy a cf adapter and run the cf chip instead of the harddrive. > > cheers > DS > > On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 20:25:36 -0400 dmccunney <dennis.mccun...@gmail.com> > writes: >> On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 7:07 PM, Ralf Quint <freedos...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > On 10/21/2014 11:39 AM, dmccunney wrote: >> >> On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 2:22 PM, Don Flowers <donr...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Gparted will not do it properly. You will not lose data, but >> FreeDOS >> >>> will not report the correct size of the new partition. I have >> found >> >>> only one thing that works: >> >>> Partition Resizer available here: >> >>> >> >>> http://www.opus.co.tt/dave/utils.htm >> >> The link from Dave's site is broken here. >> >> >> >> The direct link - http://www.zeleps.com/ - works. >> >> >> > That's even worse, it redirects to an "attack" web site these >> days... >> >> Hmmmm. I use Firefox, which uses a Google maintained list of attack >> sites. I had no problem accessing it the first time. >> >> But I run Firefox with the NoScript addon that blocks scripting >> unless >> the site is in a user maintained whitelist. With scripting off, >> there's nary a peep from FF. When I *enable* scripting, I get the >> warning screen, talking about tzdpc.com. >> >> PRESZ134.ZIP is available from a number of sources: >> http://www.filewatcher.com/m/presz134.zip.100192-0.html, so zeleps >> status isn't a problem. >> >> > Ralf >> ______ >> Dennis >> https://plus.google.com/u/0/105128793974319004519 >> >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----- >> Comprehensive Server Monitoring with Site24x7. >> Monitor 10 servers for $9/Month. >> Get alerted through email, SMS, voice calls or mobile push >> notifications. >> Take corrective actions from your mobile device. >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/Zoho >> _______________________________________________ >> Freedos-user mailing list >> Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >> ____________________________________________________________ >> Map Your Flood Risk >> Find Floodplan Maps, Facts, FAQs, Your Flood Risk Profile and More! >> http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3165/5447bc84c20c23c844685mp02duc >> > > > ******************************************************>>>> > >From Dale Sterner - MS organic chemistry > http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jo00975a052 > *******************************************************>>>> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Comprehensive Server Monitoring with Site24x7. > Monitor 10 servers for $9/Month. > Get alerted through email, SMS, voice calls or mobile push notifications. > Take corrective actions from your mobile device. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/Zoho > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
