Changing a Partition Type

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Greetings,

 

I'm wondering if it is possible to change the last (empty) partition on a drive to a different type without wiping the entire drive. Since I don't have enough drive letters for 20 1gb partitions, I was hoping to use some portion of this drive as a large FAT32 partition or something. Currently, 10gb is partition as what I thought was F32, but it isn't accessible in Magic.

 

I've seen mention of a program called HDTOOLS.APP that is reported to be associated with HDDriver, although it is not included in my version.

 

Anything that I try to do with HDDriver warns it will erase the whole drive.

 

Any suggestions would be appreciated!

[firyembers]

ICD have a program called ICD format.With this you can just format a partition individually.

Whether you will be able to use it if you used another program to initially format and partition the drive i do not know.

Best to back everything up to another drive if you can and then try

[crash]

It turns out that it is in the main HDDriver utility program HDDRUTIL and that I was just being stupid.

 

ICD Utilities won't help in this case since it can't see all of the partitions on this 20gig drive, thus, I can't change the one I want to.

 

Cheers!

[jens]

You can change the partition type but I'm not sure if the data on the other partitions is lost.

Maybe you want to have a try using another drive?