partitioning hard drives

If you are adding a drive, you can use the drive manager console to partition the drive.

If you are installing W2K on a new PC, if you boot from CD, the install program will prompt you to partition the drive.

If you are looking to do this fromDOS, or a boot floppy, there is no option.

There are 3rd party utilities. But they are primarily for adding or changing the partitions on an existing drive. (Partition Magic)

There are some 3rd party fdisk replacements.
Check the links at www.bootdisk.com
and www.fdisk.com/fdisk

?? Why don't you want to use fdisk?

Chas

Depending on the Hard Drive Manufacturer, there are some Drive Formatting & Partitioning utilities available to download. Some are good, some are so so. They will run from a floppy.

There is a program called Partition Magic which will allow you to resize your partitions without losing any of you data. Here is a link to the site http://www.powerquest.com/partitionmagic/

If you don't want to lose any data, when partitioning your HD, then use Partition Magic.
It can do more for you then just make and change a partition.
I used it allready for years without any problems on many different OS.

Good luck

Jan

Try Partition magic from PowerQuest.

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