Enlarging a FAT32 partition with Partition Magic

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I enlarged a FAT32 partition with the floppy version of Partition Magic
8.01, the partition shows up fine with it's new enlarged size when
viewed with PM, but the extra space isn't directly available.

Is a format required?


Headless
 
I enlarged a FAT32 partition with the floppy version of Partition Magic
8.01, the partition shows up fine with it's new enlarged size when
viewed with PM, but the extra space isn't directly available.

Is a format required?
Yes.



Headless
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Previously Headless said:
I enlarged a FAT32 partition with the floppy version of Partition Magic
8.01, the partition shows up fine with it's new enlarged size when
viewed with PM, but the extra space isn't directly available.
Click to expand...
Is a format required?
Click to expand...

You have enlarged the partition, but not the filesystem? They
are independent to some degree. Creating a new filesystem
will solve the problem. Another option is to enlarge the filesystem
as well. As far as I remember PM does that also. Maybe it nees to be
told explicitely.

However if data-loss is not a problem, just create a new filesystem
(which MS now calls "formattoing", but which is something entirely
different...)

Arno
 
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