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partitioning hard drive
1) Create a logical partition as the very first partition on my hard drive. (Can there be more than one logical partition on a hard drive?) This might be enough to convince OS/2 WSeb to give this partition the letter C:, and I can then install OS/2 Warp V. 4 on this partition. 2) Create another primary partition,

Partitioning hard drive without floppy drive?
Is there any reason why Windows Setup will only show 1 partition being the whole hard drive instead of the 2 separate partitions that I created through Windows Setup? Also, if this is the way Windows Setup works, how can I tell my computer to just format the 20-gig partition and leave the 10-gig partition alone and

Partitioning Hard Drive
... I recently partitioned my hard drive into several segments. Though I realize the benefits of partitioning, I have now also realized an annoying drawback. stored on partition B. When you drag the file from the desktop to some folder in partition A, it _must_ be copied: partition A and partition B are 2

Partitioning hard drive
This usually means "I went to try to read a file I was expecting to find on your boot drive and either it wasn't there or I got an error trying". The most common cause of this is that you've installed a new hard disk and defined a primary partition on it and you have OS/2 installed on a logical drive on the first

Partitioning a Hard Drive Under Windows '98
Fanman Uk P...@fanman.commark.freeserve.co.uk alt windows98 On Sat, 2 Nov 2002 23:30:08 +0000 (UTC), "John" <oaklandsau...@nospambtinternet.com> wrote: On average If you find it necessary to format your hard drive to overcome problems in windows, partitioning the drive will not make a jot of difference to you.

OverWrite: best wipe software?
The alternative would be to download the partitioning tools from the hd manufacturer (WD's Dataguard, Seagate's Disk Wizard or some other hd manufacturer depending on the model). 4) Best way of cleaning the hard drive (assuming loss of data is not a concern). In the past I've just run an unconditional reformat

2 Hard drive slave install: What's my next move?
Ron Badour rwbad...@texas.net microsoft public win95 setup KA Koehler wrote: I have two hard drives. One is 2.1GIG and the other 840 MB. I originally partitioned the 2.1G drive with 2 partitions and this is my boot drive. I want to remove the second partition and make the drive just one large partition.

Partition Hard drive
Mason Clark masoncDEL...@ix.netcom.com alt windows98 On Sat, 2 Nov 2002 23:30:08 +0000 (UTC), "John" <oaklandsau...@nospambtinternet.com> wrote: On average I and I end up reformating my C drive, once again I am at that stage, and I seem to remember reading that it is a good idea to partition the hard drive,

Defrag and Partitioning hard drive
Label the disk "Microsoft ATAPI Service Pack 4 IDE Driver." 2.. Boot from the three setup disks supplied with Windows NT Server. 3. prompt you to insert the disk labeled "Microsoft ATAPI Service Pack 4 IDE Driver Support Disk" at the copy phase after you have chosen or formatted a partition on a hard drive.

Partitioning Hard Drive
With the drive partitioning scheme recommended, you only have to do the daily backup on D: where all your documents/data files are. Backup C: & D: (lets say) quarterly. A side-bar; whatever backup media you use.... 1) Label the media with the date you *first* used it (out of the box) AND the date of each backup. 2)

partition hard drive
You don't say too much about your hard drive configuration but my guess is that the drive letters assigned by OS/2 changed when you added the new hard drive. OS/2 v3 and v4 give the first primary partition on a hard drive the 'C' letter and the first primary partition on any second hard drive the 'D' letter.

Opinions on partitioning hard drive?
Why would I need to use a partitioning program? Can I not format the hard-drive and partition it and install XP on each partition. "Carey Frisch [MVP]" wrote: You'll need to purchase a third-party partitioning program and a new copy of Windows XP for installation on the new partition. You are only permitted to

Partitioning a Hard Drive to run 2 OS's
Partition Magic is a dos based programme that takes all the hard work out of the partitioning of hard drive and I wanted to use it again. What to do? The answer was almost obvious. I have Windows on two PCs and a laptop so it would hardly be losing me much to remove 98 completely from the one PC and install Linux

I need help with 2 hard drive install please
I have a 3 gig hard drive and am running Windows 98, edition 2. I have an AMD K6-2, 3D Now processor that runs at 450 megs. While the HD is less than one third full, it still seems as if it runs awfully slow. I have thought about partitioning the hard drive, but I do not know how to do this under Windows,

Partition changed the size of HD?
(1) How do I completely re-format/re-partition my hard-drive? I want to remove everything because there are errors that are preventing me from booting-up (2) What is the best way to back-up all my data before I do this? MAny thanks, MAtt Answers: (1) Boot with your WinXP CD, then select "format" when prompted.

Win95 and Partitioning Hard Drive
K Flannagan <fla...@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message news:9SXh3.2048$1u.19703@ozemail. com.au... As per your step 2 the drive is installed & auto detected through Cmos. I am not sure how to format the drive before setting the partitions using fdisk & then formatting eg format c: I have installed many new hard drives

Need more advice on partitioning hard drive
One of them is Partition Magic. Make sure you have the compatible version with your operating system version. 2) If you have a small partition and want to "Peter Jin" <jinnij...@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:15bf01c1814f$ec4b93a0$b1e62ecf@tkmsftngxa04... does anyone know how to partition a hard drive for

Need more advice on partitioning hard drive
E-Mail: drsm...@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu Partitioning hard drive depends on your flavor. There exist many possible choices. Like you I also use OS/2 as the only os. I have a 124-Mb Maxtor IDE hard drive, partitioning the first 50 Mb as a primary partition C: and the remaining 74 Mb as a logical partition D:.

pretty easy partition question
I am not a power user and intend to use the G3 primarily for word processing, Quicken and the internet. It is doubtful whether I would ever use it for graphics or that type of use. I would like advice on: 1. Whether I should bother to partition the hard drive. 2. If so how to go about it. 3.

Partitioning Hard Drive
However, Microsoft is addressing this problem in the Service Pack 2, which is due out shortly. The down side to partitioning is that you now must manage a bunch of small disks. I've never seen that as a downside. Even when I have used OSes with file systems that don't waste any drive space, I havealways liked