Re: resizing old fat16 disk failing

From: Steve Jain (essjae-No_at_Spam-hotmail.com)
Date: 01/11/05 

Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 14:25:20 -0800

On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 08:51:42 -0500, Bill Rising
<brising@louisville.edu> wrote:

>In article <fac6u0pdbfmntab1nrd6tj76518t2umb3l@4ax.com>,
> Steve Jain <essjae-No@Spam-hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 20:31:21 -0500, Bill Rising
>> <brising@louisville.edu> wrote:
>>
>[snip...]
>
>> Ghost duplicates a disk image. If you're disk image is FAT16,
>> Ghosting it to a FAT32 disk image does nothing. Ghost will overwrite
>> whatever's on the existing drive (partitioning included).
>
>According to the ghost documentation, using the -f32 flag when ghosting
>(which I did) converts fat16 to fat32:
>
>http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/ghost.nsf/docid/1999010409444425
>
>documentation: -f32 "Lets Symantec Ghost convert all FAT16 volumes to
>FAT32 volumes when the destination partition to convert is larger than
>256 MB in size. Ensure that the installed operating systems can access
>the volumes that will be converted to support FAT32."
>
Never tried that before.
>
>http://www.petri.co.il/convert_fat16_to_fat32_in_windows_2000_xp_2003.htm
>
>Unfortunately, I have a nagging suspicion that I'll need to use some
>sort of DOS application at some point, which would mean I need FAT32.
>So, once again, I'm SOL because of missing tools.

I believe PartitionMagic can do this to.

>>
>> If Ghost can't do this, you'll probably need a utility like Partition
>> Magic that can expand existing partitions.
>
>I sure hope I don't need yet another application. I'm once again being
>underwhelmed by MS Windows...

Underwhelmed?!? You're running Windows on a Mac via a software
application!

Of course there are issues and limitations, think about whats really
happening. Also, consider how many competitors there are to VPC, no
commercial ones for OS X. This should relay some idea of miracle
thats happening on your Mac!

Anyway...

After you've Ghosted to the new VM, can you boot in Safe Mode?

You may need to repair Windows so it understands whats happened to it.
Keep in mind, Windows doesn't know you've completely change the file
system its sitting on.
Steve Jain, Virtual PC for Windows MVP
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