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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Stunaep on July 21, 2003, 01:13:35 am

Title: Microsofts, and partitions, and documents, oh my!
Post by: Stunaep on July 21, 2003, 01:13:35 am

Okay, here's the deal.

I have three partiitions.

1: 6 GB NTFS partition, with a half of WinXP installed, as a primary partition. Contains My Documents

2: 10 GB FAT32 partition with Win98 installed, as a primary partition

3: 40 GB NTFS partition with nothing installed as a logical partition.

What I need: Somehow move the my documents from Partition 1 to Partition 3, or alternatively burn them on a CD.

I cannae do it with a boot disk, since the WinXP one restricts access to only the C:/Windows folder, Win98 doesn't support NTFS, and no others I have.

I cannae do it straight from Win98, since it doesn't support NTFS.

I cannae do it straight from WinXP, since Teno' is a moron.

Title: Microsofts, and partitions, and documents, oh my!
Post by: Kamikaze on July 21, 2003, 01:21:15 am

solution:

Defrag the third partition (if it has half or more space left) and shrink partition to half or less size. Put all of the NTFS data into the other half formatted into fat. Move stuff from My Documents into fat (if you can't do this via XP you can install (or boot from CD depending on the distro) linux somewhere and enable NTFS read support). After that you can restore everything back to what it was.

difficullt/boring/tedious, but it's all I could think up

EDIT:

2nd: I got some info from LSD, you can convert NTFS to Fat using Parition Magic, it's commercial so it costs money though

3rd: Take teno's balls and make a hostage situation, demanding teno solve your problem

Title: Microsofts, and partitions, and documents, oh my!
Post by: Stunaep on July 21, 2003, 01:58:13 am

I got that solved with Partitionmagic. Glad I had the prog. Thank you for your assistance.

As for Teno, he managed to flee the country before I could get to him.