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INSTALLING, PARTITIONING AND FORMATTING HARD DRIVES

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By The Village Idiot http://www.drd.dyndns.org/ #Windows95,

DALnet's premiere computer help/discussion channel.

Adapted to text version by RunOrDie [Marius Marinescu].

CONTENTS 

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PARTITIONING YOUR HARD DRIVE 

-Partitioning and How Drive Letters Are Assigned 

-Let's Partition A Drive! 

-Deleting Partitions

PARTITIONING YOUR HARD DRIVE 

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As stated earlier, partitioning your hard drive is dividing

it up into useable areas. The analogy I used was that

Partitioning was like a farmer dividing his fields into plots,

each of which must later be ploughed and furrowed prior

to seeding. To do this, we must use the DOS command FDISK.

FDISK is a special-purpose program written to create and

delete partitions on a hard drive. Depending on the version of DOS or Windows you have,

you may see a different initial FDISK screen when you

run the command. Users who have Windows 95B or C

(also known as OSR 2.x versions) or Windows 98 will see

the following screen. Users who have other versions of

FDISK will not see this screen. -------------------------------------------------------------

Your computer has a disk larger than 512MB. This version of

Windows includes improved support for large disks, resulting

in more efficient use of disk space on large drives,

and allowing disks over 2 GB to be formatted as a single drive. IMPORTANT: If you enable large disk support and create any

new drives on this disk, you will not be able to access

the new drive(s) using other operating systems,

including some versions of Windows 95 and Windows NT, as well as earlier versions of Windows and MS-DOS.

In addition, disk utilities that were not designed

explicitly for the FAT32 file system will not be able

to work with this disk. If you need to access this disk with other operating systems or older disk utilities,

do not enable large drive support. Do you wish to enable large disk support (Y/N). . . . .? [Y] ------------------------------------------------------------ 

If you answer [Y] on the above screen, FDISK will use

a FAT-32 partition table allowing you to have partitions

over 2 GB in size. Windows 95, 95A and Windows NT do not

know how to access this type of partition, so don’t use it

for these Operating Systems. If you do not see the above screen, you should see

one much like the one below: ------------------------------------------------------------ Microsoft Windows 98 Fixed Disk Setup Program (C)Copyright Microsoft Corp. 1993 - 1998 FDISK Options Current Fixed Disk Drive: 1 Choose one of the following: 1.Create DOS partition or Logical DOS Drive 2.Set Active Partition 3.Delete partition or Logical DOS Drive 4.Display Partition Information 5.Change current fixed disk drive Enter choice: [1] Press ESC to exit FDISK ------------------------------------------------------------ 

The Options: [1] Create DOS Partition or Logical DOS Drive This option along with Option 3 are the two most commonly

used commands in FDISK. It is used to create new partitions

and logical drives within an extended dos partition. [2] Set Active Partition A hard drive can have more than one Primary Dos Partition.

In fact, it can have four of them, however only one of

the four may be active at any one time - and it’s the active

partition that the operating system boots from. This option

allows you to select which partitions should be made active. This command is very rarely used and the typical home user

will probably never need to use it. We will not

be discussing this option apart from noting that FDISK

won’t let us create more than one Primary DOS Partition although you are allowed to have up to four. [3] Delete partition or Logical DOS Drive The time will come when you want to delete a partition

or logical dos drive. Perhaps you are resizing your drive

or you’ve accidentally created a logical drive and wish

to delete it. This is where you’d do that. [4] Display partition information This option allows you to see what partitions, if any,

already exist on your drive and how it has been divided up.

This option does not make any changes to your drive. [5] Change current fixed disk drive If you have more than one hard drive installed in your

computer, you need to select which one you want

to be working on. Hard drives are listed in numerical order. (1.. 2..) 2.1.Partitioning and How Drive Letters Are Assigned DOS and Windows have this annoying tendency to not allow

you to arbitrarily assign a drive letter to the partition

of your choice. This really is no fault of their own -

it’s actually handled by the System BIOS itself. Windows NT 4.0 is the exception - it overrides

the System Bios. Therefore you must plan out in advance

how you will be setting up your drives. The way drive letters are assigned works like this: -Primary DOS Partitions get drive letters first,

starting with Drive 1, then Drive 2 and so on. -Logical DOS Drives inside of Extended DOS Partitions

get drive letters next - starting with Drive 1,

then Drive 2, etc..

-CDROM, ZIP and other removable IDE drives get their drive

letters last. These aren’t so big a problem because

for these drives you can specify drive letters. IMPORTANT: If you're adding a new hard disk

ALREADY PARTITIONED If the drive you're adding already has

a primary DOS parition, and your first hard drive has

an extended partition with Logical partitions in it,

the drive letters of these logical partitions will be

pushed back, and any programs you have on it will see

their links and shortcuts broken. To avoid this situation,

add an unpartitioned drive only, or add a partitioned drive that ONLY has logical partitions in an extended partition.

Fdisk Part1 

Fdisk Part2  

Fdisk Part3 

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