Hi all, thank you very much for your great suggestions. Especially FIPS and Partition Resizer. I tried both, but I am only able to resize partitions with these programs and not to merge two partions to one.
I'll try GParted and hope it will do it well. Thanks a lot. Christian Am 22.10.2014 21:01 schrieb "Don Flowers" <[email protected]>: > 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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> > > writes: > >> On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 7:07 PM, Ralf Quint <[email protected]> > >> wrote: > >> > On 10/21/2014 11:39 AM, dmccunney wrote: > >> >> On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 2:22 PM, Don Flowers <[email protected]> > >> 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 > >> [email protected] > >> 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 > > [email protected] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >
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