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To: Elmer who wrote (33629)	6/29/1998 5:31:00 AM
From: John Goldthorp	Respond to of 1573404

Jim, Elmer <off topic> consolidating disk partitions 1. Easy (and slightly hokey) way is to use a disk management program to give logical view of all physical partitions .... as one partition. Don't have hands on experience with these perhaps some one reading this would comment. This method doesn't physically change things. 2. Right Way (also laborious, tedious way) Back up all partitions to tape or removable disk. Close down all programs before you do this, make sure you can later reinstall tape drive (or Zip, Syquest, whatever) software. Also ensure you have a W98 startup disk (You can create on Add/Remove Programs icon in Control Panel.) Restart W98 in MS-DOS Mode. Enter fdisk at command prompt. Now remove each partition on the drive using delete option. Then create a primary partition, 32-bit fat with all space on drive. Any data you had on the disk is now ... gone. Reboot to the Windows start-up disk. Enter: format c: This will format the drive for windows use. Reinstall Windows, and your backup software. Then restore the original C: drive from your backups. Restart windows to be sure all is well to this point. Occasionally, reinstallation of windows may be required a second time. Now restore remaining backup sets to the C: drive. When you're finished, you will need to reinstall programs in order that they'll appear on the start menu, and be correctly registered with Windows. (Only programs not on original C: partition need be reinstalled) Alternative: in the fdisk process above recreate D: E:, etc. extended partitions, but make them just large enough to hold current stuff. Then restore to these new smaller partitions. Of course, you would allocate leftover space to the C: drive. This alternative approach would avoid the necessity of reinstalling programs. Hope this helps. John