roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu (Roy M. Silvernail) (01/27/91)
Under MS-DOS 3.3, I have a 40 meg hard drive partitioned as 2 logical 20
meg drives. For orginizational reasons, I'm thinking of changing the
partitions to 20, 15 and 5 megs. My question is, will I lose the data on
the first partition if I delete the current second partition and create
2 in its place? (in other words, will I have to backup and restore my C:
drive when all I'm killing is D:?)
Thanks in advance. E-mail is fine, and I'll summarize if there's lots of
interest.
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[new year, new .sig, same ol' cyberspace]jzl@micasa.UUCP (Jack Z. Lupic) (01/29/91)
roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu (Roy M. Silvernail) writes: > Under MS-DOS 3.3, I have a 40 meg hard drive partitioned as 2 logical 20 > meg drives. For orginizational reasons, I'm thinking of changing the > partitions to 20, 15 and 5 megs. My question is, will I lose the data on > the first partition if I delete the current second partition and create > 2 in its place? (in other words, will I have to backup and restore my C: > drive when all I'm killing is D:?) > You will only lose the data on the "extended" DOS partition that you are attempting to change but the BOOT partition should be OK. If you muck around with the BOOT partition <C:\>, then you'll lose everything. ----- Jack Z. Lupic - Scarborough, Ont., Canada {aimed,becker,blister,torag,utdoe}!micasa!jzl
bei%dogface@cs.utexas.edu (Bob Izenberg) (01/31/91)
jzl@micasa.UUCP (Jack Z. Lupic) writes: > roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu (Roy M. Silvernail) writes: > > > partitions to 20, 15 and 5 megs. My question is, will I lose the data on > > the first partition if I delete the current second partition and create > > 2 in its place? (in other words, will I have to backup and restore my C: > > drive when all I'm killing is D:?) > > > > You will only lose the data on the "extended" DOS partition that you are > attempting to change but the BOOT partition should be OK. If you muck around > with the BOOT partition <C:\>, then you'll lose everything. It's always better to be safe than sorry, so I'd back things up beforehand anyway. -- Bob