On 1 Jan 2005 15:28:03 -0800, jameshanley39******.co.uk wrote :

>I want to do it, partly for the hell of it, and also because I have
>heard that win9x is only meant to run in the primary partition within
>the first 1024 cylinders or 8ish GB.
>Partition magic lets me move partitions into unallocated space if there
>is unallocated space immediately adjacent, but it doesn't let me
>reorder partitions. If there is no unallocated space either side then I
>can't move a partition at all.

You can do it in stages. Reduce the size of existing partitions as
far as you can to create unused space. If that's not enough, backup
your data partition to DVD or CD or to another HDD, delete it to make
sufficient free space, then after reorganising the partitions,
reinstate the data.

But before you try anything like that, create a full system backup!

Or just upgrade to Win XP and re-letter your partitions to the order
you want (ie leave C as C but change D to E and E to D (do D to Z then
E to D, then Z to E ie via an intermediary letter) if that's the way
you want it, and then run DriveMapper if necessary.
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Regards,
Peter Wilkins