Win98 Partition problem with fips

[Padmanab Sridhar]

Hello all,
I am having a last cylinder problem for partitioning my 5gb hdd
having win98 which i want to resize to 2 gb thereby giving the rest to
my 3gb linux partition.
I tried defragging win98 and then running fips but it always gives me
the same error!
is there any other solution for the same ! If not are there any other
good partitioning softwares to do the same!
Thanks and rgds,
Padmanab Sridhar Ramaswamy

[mjt]

Padmanab Sridhar wrote:

> having win98 which i want to resize to 2 gb thereby giving the rest to
> my 3gb linux partition.
> I tried defragging win98 and then running fips but it always gives me
> the same error!

.... installing which distro? most distro installers will resize
the win partition non-destructively
..
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[Bill Marcum]

On 15 Sep 2003 03:38:59 -0700, Padmanab Sridhar
<p_appu@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hello all,
> I am having a last cylinder problem for partitioning my 5gb hdd
> having win98 which i want to resize to 2 gb thereby giving the rest to
> my 3gb linux partition.
> I tried defragging win98 and then running fips but it always gives me
> the same error!

What is the exact error message?

> is there any other solution for the same ! If not are there any other
> good partitioning softwares to do the same!

parted
Ranish Partition Manager
Partition Magic (not free)

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[John Todd]

On 15 Sep 2003 03:38:59 -0700, Padmanab Sridhar <p_appu@yahoo.com> wrote:

>Hello all,
> I am having a last cylinder problem for partitioning my 5gb hdd
>having win98 which i want to resize to 2 gb thereby giving the rest to
>my 3gb linux partition.
>I tried defragging win98 and then running fips but it always gives me
>the same error!
>is there any other solution for the same ! If not are there any other
>good partitioning softwares to do the same!
>Thanks and rgds,
>Padmanab Sridhar Ramaswamy

I'm not sure this will do it, but when you defragged, did you
do it in DOS, and use the /F switch for full optimization?
I mean boot to DOS, holding down the CTRL key while booting
and selecting "command prompt only", NOT a Win dosprompt.



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