Hi, is there any partition software available that works with Win98 ?
I have a demo version of Partition Magic 8.0 but being only demonstration it doesn't allow any partitions to be resized.
Thanks.
PQ uses a Dos program anyways. Ya it installs on 98 but the actual program runs in dos. I don't know of any partition resizers for DOS except for PQ. GParted is a linux based that will run from a CD, that one is free. I have pq8 so I know.
Gparted takes a long time to boot on a slow computer, and you might not have enough ram. Hard to say if you are resourceful it can be used on a faster system if you plugged your drive into the faster system probably what Id do if I had no other options and couldn't find a pirated copy of Pq7 or 8.
gparted recommended free
https://gparted.org/
I found this freeware utility I never heard of. runs in dos use at own risk not recommended.
https://web.archive.org/web/20190924014037/ht … m/download.html
A bootable Linux live CD is my tool of choice for that (I use fdisk on the command line, but gparted should be fine too ).
There is a bit of a learning curve with fdisk under Linux , but it is well worth it in my opinion .
My distro of choice for old hardware is Lubuntu . lubuntu-16.04.3-desktop-i386.iso works fine on my Pentium 3 . I have not tried it on anything older .
Warlord wrote on 2021-06-26, 04:20:I found this freeware utility I never heard of. runs in dos use at own risk not recommended.
https://web.archive.org/web/20190924014037/ht … m/download.html
That one is good, and there is always the good old FIPS which was included on many Linux distros:
http://archive.download.redhat.com/pub/redhat … osutils/fips20/
The BeOS install discs had a special version of Partition Magic that could resize the primary partition and create a new fixed size one.
darry wrote on 2021-06-26, 05:11:A bootable Linux live CD is my tool of choice for that (I use fdisk on the command line, but gparted should be fine too ).
There is a bit of a learning curve with fdisk under Linux , but it is well worth it in my opinion .
My distro of choice for old hardware is Lubuntu . lubuntu-16.04.3-desktop-i386.iso works fine on my Pentium 3 . I have not tried it on anything older .
I see Ubuntu 16.04.7 LTS is still supported- http://releases.ubuntu.com/ 32-bit image available at- http://releases.ubuntu.com/xenial/
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A founding member of the 286 appreciation society.
Apparently 32-bit is dead and nobody likes P4s.
Of course, as always, I'm open to correction...😉
