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'''FIPS''' ('''First nondestructive Interactive Partition Splitter''') <ref>{{cite web|first=Arno |last=Schäfer |title=Welcome to FIPS - The First nondestructive Interactive Partition Splitting program |url=http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/people/chaffee/fips/fips.doc |publisher=Arno Schaefer |accessdate=9 January 2012 |deadurlurl-status=yesdead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090413115233/http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/people/chaffee/fips/fips.doc |archivedate=April 13, 2009 }}</ref> - is an [[MS-DOS]] program for non-destructive splitting of [[File Allocation Table]] (FAT) [[hard disk partition]]s.
 
Splitting partitions is an alternative to deleting the partitions and creating new ones using software such as [[fdisk]], the advantage of which is that the data is not lost. The most common use is installing multiple operating systems on a single computer.