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FREEWARE: Repartitioning Drives! FIPS15.zip
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff *Clef* Butts)
Sun Aug 11 16:08:43 1996
To: os2ann.DISCUSS@bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU
Date: 11 Aug 1996 14:06:56 GMT
From: clef@ntrek.com (Jeff *Clef* Butts)
Reply-To: clef@ntrek.com (Jeff *Clef* Butts)
Reply-to: clef@ntrek.com (Jeff *Clef* Butts)
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Okay, here it is... ordinarily, I'm the type of person who wouldn't think of
buying a program like Partition Magic... I've seen too many cases where it
messes up the boot record. However, I found a FREEWARE program that allows you
to split partitions, giving you an empty, free partition! The program is
called FIPS... and it can be downloaded from
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/Install/FIPS15.ZIP . The current
filename is FIPS15.ZIP, and it worked great for me!
One thing to make sure of... if you run FIPS, run it from a boot disk... don't
run it from ANY type of multitasker! Also, don't have ANY disk-caching
programs running when you run FIPS! Finally, completely defragment your hard
drive before running FIPS! You need to make sure the part of the partition
you are splitting off is completely empty!
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