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- Fips is a program to non-destructively resize a FAT partition. I have done
- an update to fips to support FAT32. This update has now been incorporated
- into FIPS 2.0. This version should fix the VBACKUP error message when
- rebooting to Win95 after resizing. However, it is strongly recommended that
- you backup your root and boot sectors when it asks you if you want to!
- This will allow you to restore everything to the previous condition if
- something goes wrong. It would also help to have a system boot floppy
- around. You can create one with format /s a: or with sys a: on an already
- formatted floppy. Fips was not written to support partitions marked with
- type 0xC, 0xE, or 0xF. All of these partition type use Logical Block
- Addressing (LBA). LBA allows the BIOS to address disks over 8GB. A
- partition type of 0xC is a FAT32 partition that uses Logical Block
- Addressing (LBA). A partition type of 0xE is a FAT16 partition that uses
- LBA. A partition type of 0xF is a FAT16 partition that uses LBA but is less
- than 32MB. Not all partitions on LBA disks get marked with partition types
- 0xC, 0xE, or 0xF, so it is worth trying first. Someone has even reported
- success on one of the unsupported partition types--0xC.
-