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In the New capacity box, type or select the number of entries you want the root
directory to have.
The number you type will be rounded to one that preserves the current cluster
alignment.
4 Click OK.
Occasionally, enlarging the root directory displaces the first few files on the partition
(such as IO.SYS and MSDOS.SYS if the partition contains an operating system). If the
root directory is on a boot partition and the partition fails to boot after resizing the root
directory, you should run the SYS command to move the displaced files back to the front
of the disk.
Setting an Active Partition
The Set Active operation lets you make a partition the active partition (the partition the
computer boots from). Norton provides multiple ways to set a partition active:
PartitionMagic (Windows version or rescue disk version), BootMagic, PQBoot, and
PQBoot for Windows. This section explains changing the active partition from within
PartitionMagic.
Only one partition on a hard disk can be active at a time. To boot your computer from a
partition, the partition must be on the first disk, and it must contain an operating system.
When your computer boots, it reads the partition table of the first disk to find out which
partition is active and boots from that partition.
IMPORTANT! Before you make a partition active, it should be bootable. If the partition is
not bootable or if you are not certain if it is (such as before you install an
operating system), have a boot diskette or bootable CD ready.
If you plan to install an operating system to a partition, the partition must be active.
PartitionMagic hides any other FAT, FAT32, and NTFS primary partitions (unlike
Windows 9x and DOS FDISK programs which cannot hide or unhide partitions). Hiding
the other primary partitions makes it easy to install multiple operating systems and
choose the one you want to set active. For example, if you have Windows 95 and want to
install Windows NT in a separate partition, you can make the Windows 95 partition
smaller, create another primary partition, set it as the active partition, and then boot from
the Windows NT installation diskettes.
1 Select the partition you want to make active.