partitioning

hey! use the fdisk.exe utility to parttion the h/d.
Please read the instructions carefully and proceed.

First perform a backup. Use utility like Partition Magic. Using Fdisk to partition your drive will cause you will lose the contents of your drive - just a warning in the event that you want some of the data on the drive. If this is not important then boot to floppy and run Fdisk. You will need to specify that you want large disk support, remove existing partitions, then define the partition for C:, then define partition as the remainder of the drive. Good luck.

If this is a new drive, use fdisk.
If you want to change the format on an existing drive with data on it, you need to use a partition utility such as Partition Magic if you want to save the data on the drive.

The best way to run fdisk, is to boot from a startup floppy. Then type fdisk, and follow the screens.

With either fdisk, or partition magic, you need to do the following;

Select the drive to partition if you have more than 1 HD in the system.

Create a primary dos partition. When asked for size, either enter 25%, or 10GB. In fdisk, the size will come back a little bit different. this is normal.

Then, you will create an extended partition. Use the remainder of the drive for this partition.

Next, you need to define a logical drive in the extended partition. Again, per your info, use the remainder of the drive.

Reboot your system, and format the new drives.

If you are replacing an existing drive, there are utilities that you can get to copy the data from your old drive over to the new drive.

Hi.
If you are in NT or 2000 just use Disk Administrator (erase partition and recreate, then format).
Warning: this also will clear all data on used partitions.
Mike

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