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by carla.cds

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I have a Win 98SE PC Hard Drive with 3 logical drives. I need to add space to the primary drive. I own a copy of Partition Magic 4.0. Is this possible?

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by thechas

IF your drives are formatted as FAT32 volumes, it should work okay.

Just in case, it is good practice to back up critical files before running ANY partition utility.

If your drives are FAT16 volumes, you are limited to 2.1GB per volume. You will have to change to FAT32 first.

Chas

by tonywildcat17

We did something like that to a machine at work. The problem that we encountered was we had programs that were not installed on the primary partition. When we combined the partitions, the programs did not work anymore. It turned into a big mess. Had to go through the registry and remove everything for that program inorder to re-install. My suggestion would be, if you do have programs installed on partitions other than the primary, remove them before attempting to use Patition Magic. Could save you a lot of problems later on.

Tony

by carla.cds

Thank you, that worked. I did run into one app that was installed on one of the partitions. I just uninstalled and reinstalled. The machine is working fine now.

Carla

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