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Sun, 09 Apr 2017 00:01:19 GMT in alt.home.repair, wrote:
To resize partitions with Windows you need to be running a
minimum of Win7, IIRC.. There ARE third party utilities that will
do it on XP - like spinrite?
spinrite doesn't repartition anything. It's a low level drive
testing/data recovery utility which is actually two seperate exe's in
one. Instead of a DOS stub that tells you to run it in Windows, it's
the actual program. It *requires* a DOS environment. When executed
under Windows, you're greeted with options for creating media
that'll reboot your machine into freedos and execute the actual
program from there for you.
The single executable file is really two seperate executables in one.
The MZ section is the actual program, which is ignored if run under
Windows. Windows will run the PE code below it, instead. The PE code
isn't the actual program, though. It's just a front end to let you
create bootable media (using freedos) so you can reboot the machine
into a supported environment and execute the MZ section of the
executable that actually does the work.
Spinrite isn't freeware, but, it's reasonably priced.
https://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm
I've still got Spinrite 6 someplace around here. And it does work in
many cases. Used to use it quite a bit at a shop I worked at.
You do NOT need to be running Windows 7 to resize partitions. Where
do you even get that idea? Just how do you think we
resized/split,merged, etc partitions prior to Windows 7?
http://www.easeus.com/partition-manager/epm-free.html
Works well, but, as always, backup your data before playing with such
tools. Partition magic is another decent one I have experience with.
Again though, you would want to backup your data before using these
utilities, just to be on the safe side. As, things can go wrong. IE:
power outage in the middle of the job, for example.
I'm saddened to see what passes for IT expertise these days. Really
disappointing...
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