Partition Magic and RH--Resizing a Parition

From: Wayne Watson (2) (mtnviews_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 10/29/03


Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 01:54:54 GMT

I have a triple boot system, DOS, W2000, and RH 6.3. When I set it up
originally (on an old computer), I allocated 0.5G, 2G, and 5.5G (RH) to
the 8G drive. I've almost run out of space on the W stuff, and have
barely used RH. I decided to see if I could get PM 8.0 to trim down the
last partition (RH) from 5.5 to 3.5G. It seemed up to the task but as it
was re-arranging the 3.5G partition it failed with a #702 error. I have
no idea what that is. Anyway, I brought up RH successfully, I think. Is
there anyway to tell? It went right into the desktop, and seemed OK. I
turned the extra 2G into a FAT file and fed it to W2000. It likes it.

BTW, does PM have a newsgroup or Yahoo group? Their support via e-mail
seems pretty poor. Lots of nonsensical admin details to ask a simple
question.



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