Re: Fwd: shrink drive c: to install a new operating system

On Wed, 12/25/2024 1:26 PM, Carlos E.R. wrote:

On 2024-12-25 18:08, Paul wrote:
 
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It's the same anywhere, YOU test the quality in, because
people you cannot see, may or may not care all that much.
In the previous paragraphs, are two diametrically opposed results.
Careful developers and... the other kind.
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If you use a third party tool, it can take part time testing
for months, to conclude what kind of developers they were.

 
The first time I shrinked a partition was in 1998. Back then, you needed a small partition before the 1024 cylinder, but could be a tiny one, used for /boot. So sometimes you needed to shrink a bit the beginning of the Windows partition, then a large portion at the end. Could be a large portion at the end, and then shift everything a cylinder or two.
 
The limitation came because the BIOS could not read beyond the 1024 cylinder or something like that.
 
I used, I think, Partition Magic in Windows. Is this tool still around?
 
Things are easier now.
 

Partition Magic was acquired by someone else.

The Partition Magic developers were pretty careful. They enforced
all sorts of rules for which there was no reason to enforce them :-)
And doing that, reduced the number of test cases they would need
to run. It was a case of "you can't do this, and you can't do that".
Your operations then, had to align with whatever rules they
had cooked up.

   Paul