It CAN be done with Win9x fdisk

Subject: It CAN be done with Win9x fdisk
Name: ludicrous
Date: 10/15/2001 3:19:35 PM (GMT-7)
IP Address: 138.67.74.229
In Reply to: I've done it with FDISK before. posted by Ben
Message:

or at least some of them (OSR2 for sure), as I have done it myself. Only trouble is, a disk with ONLY an extended partition normally is non-bootable, meaning you wouldn't be able to use it once it was back in the original computer.

A way around that: Create a primary and a secondary, delete the primary (the space will still be there!), do whatever to the secondary; and then re-create the primary when done and...voila.

This of course is not always practical with a really small disk just because sometimes you need more space to work with than the amount you can possibly allow to go over to a secondary partition.