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by xpertdragon 1 view

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This is a question for all the Partition Magic experts out there. I am attempting to ONLY resize 2 different partitions within Windows NT 4.0 workstation. The Problem I am having is with the Cluster size between the 2 partitions, and this is what is limiting me from taking free space from one partition to another. I want to take most of a 8 GIG partition that has a cluster size of 4k I believe, and free some of that space onto the System partition of 2 GIGS with a cluster size of 64k.

These options of altering both NTFS partitions and their cluster sizes is grayed out and not possible in PQ magic. How can this be accomplished in Partition Magic? Is their another utility that will re-size clusters on NTFS partitions? Or am I completely wrong thinking this is what is holding me back on a partition re-size attempt?

Thanks!

Paul M. Chavez

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by williamscott

Im not entirely sure on this but i think it is to do with NTFS file system... i dont think you can do it with Partion Magic also...

- William

by xpertdragon

Re-sizing NTFS partitions can be done with version 6.0 of PQ Magic, it wasn't until the recently released version 7.0 that you could merge NTFS partitions.

Paul

by dmiles

Try to enable the cluster size,
On the Partition Magic Main Window,click on the Preference Menu,you can then select to enable 64KB clusters

by xpertdragon

Yes, 64k was enabled by default on the system partition....problem was the secondary partition was set at 4k cluster. the recommendation of PQ magic web site was to convert it to FAT32 then to NTFS, and by default it would be converted with that 64k Cluster sizing.

I now get the 'xmnt2001.exe file not found' error with PQ magic 7.0 on reboot after changes are made

by kflier66

Unfortunately, PM Version 6 does not handle NTFS resizing properly. I ran into a similar problem. Version 7 seems to work fine.

by xpertdragon

Thanks for the help. I have both versions of PQ magic, 6 and 7. But now I am dealing with that error above.

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