Hello Russell.

13 Dec 03 16:46, you wrote to me:

 VP>> There are also commercial tools that can perform the conversion
 VP>> in a couple of mouseclicks.

 RT> Partion Magic 4.0 which is the last time I paid money for such a tool,
 RT> does not like v5 NTFS. :-(

PM 4 was released _waaay_ before win2k/xp. I checked PM 8.1 and System
Commander 7 (A commercial boot manager which includes a quite nice
boot-time partitioning support) both can perform the conversion.

 RT> Was not aware that there where any good fdisk replacements, any idea
 RT> where I could download a copy?

You can download Symantec GDISK (which i mentioned before) form

      http://bdew.nm.ru/RT/sym-gdisk.zip

It's a _command line only_ FDISK-like program - for example if you wanted
to delete some ntfs partition, you would do:

1) (list drives) c:\>gdisk

> Disk  Partitions  Cylinders  Heads  Sectors  Mbytes  Model
>   1        4         4998     255      63   39205.7  Maxtor 6E040L0

2) (view partitions) c:\>gdisk 1

> Disk  Partitions  Cylinders  Heads  Sectors  Mbytes  Model
>   1        4         4998     255      63   39205.7  Maxtor 6E040L0
>
> Partition  Status   Type     Volume Label   Mbytes   System   Usage
>  C:  1        A    PRIMARY    WIN98-SYS     4000.5  FAT32      10%
>      2             EXTENDED                35204.9             90%
>      3             LOGICAL                 10001.4  NTFS/HPFS  26%
>  D:  4             LOGICAL    GAMES        25203.5  FAT32      64%

3) (delete the ntfs partition) c:\>gdisk 1 /DEL /P:3

And that's it, you can do "gdisk /?" and "gdisk /?
" for the full description.

NOTE: This program seems to require _NO CONFIRMATION AT ALL_ for delete
operations, so be carefull !

Viktor

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