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Help please partitioning hard drive
For example purposes, make the dedicated hard drive partition at least and about 18144000 bytes long. Let's say your system calls this partition hard drive H:\. Not only is the data processing confined to drive H:\ but it is confined to the free space where you deleted TFiles 2 - 13.

Unable to partition hard drive
It has the standard single partition hard disk, so I would like to repartition it with two volumes--one for programs and one for all of my files. What is the best way to do this? My laptop doesn't have a floppy, but it does have the dvd/cd drive and the recovery disks for xp. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Partition hard drive
But make sure the DOS partition is visible to the OS/2 partition, of course! This means that if they're on the same physical drive, OS/2 will have to be installed on a logical partition (probably as drive "D"). -- -------------------------- Alex Taylor a...@eddie.cis.uoguelph.ca --------------------------

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If I keep the original drive as the master, what would be the best way to partition the new hard drive? My current 340mb drive is one big FAT partition, just like when I bought it. Would it be a good idea to divide it into separate partitions for dos and os/2? I read in the os/2 user's guide that only one partition

General recommendations re:partitioning hard drive?
Hughland Hughl...@concentric.net alt sys pc-clone packardbell Liber...@ix.netcom.com wrote: I have a 75 Megahurtz with a 850 Hard drive. I am considering adding a new hard drive, either 2 gig or 4 gig, does anyone have any advice on wether or not I should: A) keep my old hard drive and add a new one partitioning

Partitioning Hard Drive
(Awesome company to deal with BTW) The system I ordered came with two (2) 750 GB hard drives (1.5TB total). Before I get too far along and things get out of hand, I would like recommendations on the most effecient way to partition the hard drives. Ideally I believe (please do correct me if I am wrong) I would like

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cpemma cpe...@mexbro.co.uk uk comp homebuilt With only 4Gb I'd just split it in 2. Keep Win/IE/swap file on c, programs and data on d. It's quicker to defrag (D I've been told that partitioning my 4gig hard drive into 4 segments will speed up the boot of my computer and opening of programs etc. Is this true?

Re-Partition Hard Drive
However, the "boot partition" for the rest of Windows can be in the same partition on that hard drive, in another partition on that same hard drive, or in a partition on a completely different hard drive. If you have 2 hard drives then you should place pagefiles on BOTH hard drives. The "boot partition" (where

FAT & Partitioning Hard Drive?
The original hard drive was partitioned into C with 2 gigs and D with 6 gigs. XP upgrade wouldn't install as the error kept tellimg me there was not It seems if I had only one c drive with 8 gigs everything would be fine. If that is a correct assumption could somebody tell me how to partition using F Disk,

partitioning the hard drive
I'd like to partition the hard drive before I start adding anything, but I have two major questions: 1. A few weeks ago I read advice to just buy Partition Magic, but that's about $70 to get it soon. Is that the best way to go, even with a fresh system? 2. How do you recommend partitioning and organizing it?

Need advice aand info. on partitioning hard drive.
Except of course one detail. I have a 2nd 8 Gig hard drive, that is not being used by Linux at all. It is partitioned as 2 Gig FAT and 6 Gig FAT. No, not a swap file per se, but a swap partition. a swap partition is raw access, straight to the disk, and is the normal setup. a swap file is a "oh, no I screwed up

Partitioning Hard Drive for Win95 and RH 5.0 To Coexist
(2) Do you want a one-primary partition hard drive, where Win98 is on primary C and OS/2 is on logical D? Or do you want a two-primary partition hard drive, where Win98 is on primary C and OS/2's primary C is invisible when you boot to Win98 on its C, and vice versa when you boot to OS/2 on its C?

Advice sought on partitioning hard drive, please
If you do not see the entry for your hard drive or CD-ROM, that means you need to do this: 1) Go to /usr/src/linux/drivers/block. Run MAKEDEV.IDE. 2) Recompile your kernel. Do not roceed if your kernel cannot not detect the hard drive during boot up. 2. Partition your hard drive. Important to know: You can have

Partitioning Hard Drive
If you are not running Windows 95 OEM Release 2 or Version B the maximum partition size will be 2.048GB not 2.5GB. Hope this helps! Russ R. wrote in message <6a034r$...@camel18.mindspring.com>... Hello, I just installed a second hard drive (Western Digital, 2.5 gig) on my system (Gateway 2000, P5-166).

2 Hard drive slave install: What's my next move?
You can't add multiple primary partitions to your hard drive (*primary* partitions, not Extended volumes)? 2. You can't create a primary partition any larger than ~2GB? You also can't create Volumes inside the Extended partition larger than ~2GB 3. You are using FDISK to do all these chores? 4.

Enhanced IDE, Partitioning Hard Drive Questions
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. If I do, what size partitions. Any advice will be greatly appreciated. No. Get System 8.1 and format as HFS+.

Partitioning hard drive
That way it will run at speed (only limited by the processor) and you should be able to access all 8Gig, although you may still need to partition to solve software compatibility problems (I think WIN95/OSR2 and later could handle >2 Gig discs using FAT32. Before that 2 Gig was the limit .. although this is ancient

partitioning hard drive
I just want to know if there is any way to partition it using FDISK without partitioning it like 5 or 6 times. I just want to have one partition and having DOS as FAT32 supports logical drives up to a maximum size of 2 terabytes (2048GB), far larger than any drive made. If you're not sure what version you have,

Partitioning hard drive
2. How should I partition the drives, both OP's on one HD and the other for storage?Need advice on that. Yes you can do that as well. Partitioning a Hard Drive with FDISK is not difficult. It does not have a fancy GUI like Partition Magic etc but it is quite straightforward. a) boot with a Windows 98 Startup

format hard drive?
I have a Dell Pentium 75 computer with 1/2 gyg hard drive and 16 mg RAM. I do not have a CD ROM drive, so I am going to install the diskette version. I have MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.1 and I want them on a primary partition, Warp 3 to be on the secondary partition. I have, in my DOS version, Fdisk.