FDisk Aftermath

[ScaryBinary]

If I use FDisk just to make my primary partition larger, will I lose the data in it? I don't care about data in the extended partition.

Thanks,
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[Mntsnow]

Yes! Use FDisk and You will lose your data. I would suggest that you use Partition Magic and then you wont have to lose ANY data period.

[Target]

And just in case you need a second opinion (not likely when the first answer is from MntSnow)...... ditto to what he said!

[krusty the klown]

I'd recommend backing up anything you can't afford to lose before using partition magic, as you can still cause damage by doing the wrong thing.

Ideally, if you have an old HDD kicking around, use this to familiarise yourself with partition magic. (just me being cautious!)

[muno]

Windows NT - as far as I can remember supports partition extending directly, if your os is different, then of course, this is out of the question and you can ignore =)
-M

[ScaryBinary]

So, what you're saying is... http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/wink.gif

Thanks for the help. I thought I'd lose the data; I only asked because I used FDisk awhile ago, and to my surprise -I swear- all my data was OK. It really threw me.

[krusty the klown]

Yeah, you can use FDISK to delete and create partitions, or make them active/inactive. AFAIK, you cannot re-size a partition 'on the fly' and keep the data. I was under the impression that you could only delete a partition then create a new larger one, losing all data in the original partition in the process.......?

[elroy]

Scary Binary: You may have had a case of accidentally removing a partition then replacing the EXACT same size partition prior to any overwrites and were able to access all the data afterward.