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Partitioning hard drive question
[problem with OS/2 partition that fdisk (the MsDos one) cannot see and thus, not delete] Bruno Dima replies: I recently had the same problem...solved it by formatting my IDE drive using BIOS services (AMI 1992). Intercept DOS by pressing the «delete» key (this may vary on your machine), enter BIOS and format from

How to partition hard drive on win 2000
I did the FDISK thing and created 2 logical partitions, and then ran the recovery disk. Everything went fine. Apparently, the "tattoo" is not a problem. Many recovery CD's will fdisk and format the hard drive. Your recovery cd may have options for reinstalling the software to an existing partition.

Running debian-installer within bochs and uml
Yeff zoo...@fastmail.fm alt comp hardware On 8 Mar 2006 01:07:21 -0800, zapzapzapza...@hotmail.com wrote: I've heard of 2 pieces of software that might be able to help me with this... boot itng and partition magic, but would like to know what others think. BING's your best bet. You can download a fully functional

Partitioning Hard drive?
In particular I am wondering whether I should partition the 1.2G hard disk or not. I am under the impression that this would allow a more efficient use of space but I'm not sure why, or how big the partitions should be Space on your hard drive is allocated in clusters - a small file will be given one cluster,

Partitioning Hard Drive
2. Make the floppy rescue disks when asked if you want to. Now it is installed. When you run PM you will get warnings about compatibility; once again click OK and ignore them. To Partition your Hard Drive you have two choices. 1. Restart the computer with a Windows Me Startup Disk in the floppy drive.

"UN"partitioning a hard drive
(You might feel comfortable running a 2 gig drive with 200MB free, for (an admittedly random) example. However you'd have a hard time spreading that 200MB of freespace I am soliciting opinions on whether to partition my hard drive. I have a P5-120 with 32 MB of RAM running Windows 98. I have a 1.6 GB hard drive

Partitioning the hard drive
FDISK (DOS) the hard drive and erase all partitions. 2. Run EZ-BIOS and let it install the Large Hard Drive features and also partition the whole hard drive into the following partitions, 1 500 MB, and 2 equal partitions using the rest of the space. 3. Run FDISK (DOS) again and erase the last 2 partitions. 4.

Partitioning the Hard Drive
I am studying for MCSE and have tutorial CD's that can run NT Workstation and NT Server so I would like to partition my hard drive so I can boot to the OS I want. When I run FDISK to create a new partition it only allows me a maximum partition size of 16 MB. I am currently only using about 2 GB of my hard drive so

Partitioning Hard Drive
I have a 40GB hard drive partitioned as follows: 5GB FAT32 35GB NTFS What's the simplest way of re-formatting and re-organising this drive to be simply 40GB FAT32 so that I can install windows 98 on it? I have the windows 98 setup cd, but it can't see the NTFS partition. I've heard of 2 pieces of software that

Partitioning hard drive--reinstalling WIN 98
Head movement is increased by partitioning a hard drive so, I leave mine alone as a single 8.4 gig HD but moved my swap file to another physical hard drive to get some real speed performance increase. Drvspace always shows only 2 Gigs present... don't ask me why but it always did even under my 8.4 gig HD. you gonna

Partitioning Hard drive?
Mark L. Kahnt ka...@hosehead.dyndns.org linux debian user sFri, 2003-02-07 at 12:22, Hans Wilmer wrote: On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 01:39:58AM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: What is the lists advice in managing my /usr partition so it does not completetly fill up and cause problems in the future? Make it 2 GB as a

Copying OS2 to another drive
I also have another hard drive that is currently not partitioned and fdisk is not letting me add a new partition to it. Then FORMAT both partitions 2. Use third party software such as PowerQuest Partition Magic to recude teh sixe of the primary partition and then create a secondary partition.

Can't install OS/2 Warp 4 on 13 GB drive
Automatically Partition Hard Drives (unsafe) (default) 2. I have already partitioned the hard drive 3. Partition a hard drive Prompt: 1 - 3> 2 Warning: start=2 - this looks like a partition rather than the entire disk. Using fdisk on it is probably meaningless. [Use the --force option if you really want this]

partitioning hard drive
Or is a boot manager required...or mabey it's not possible to boot from a drive 2. That's a good question, and I think the answer depends on the BIOS. rather than diskette and hard drive; Award calls LS120, Zip, CD, SCSI as devices, thank %Deity% Once found the mbr there finds an active partition, and boots it.

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2. If this is not possible, you will need to remove the attributes (r,s,h) of ALL files of your MD, taking a note of these files and attributes to replace them later. The largest new partition I can create is 12MB, not_big enough for Linux nor to lower the cluster size on the actual drive.

Partitioning Hard Drive
Tom Almy toma...@aracnet.com alt sys pc-clone dell Whelan family wrote: I'd like to partition the hard drive before I start adding anything, but I have two major questions: 2. How do you recommend partitioning and organizing it? I've heard the recommendation to have just the OS and IE on the primary partition,

Partitioning hard drive on WinXP Home reinstallation
ha...@pacbell.net comp os os2 misc In <8tn12l$34...@nnrp1.deja.com>, danasind...@my-deja.com writes: This is all new to me (installing OS2 and making a seperate partition on my harddrive), so any help you could give me would be appreciated. If you still have the book that came with OS/2 there's a chapter in there

Partitioning hard drive--reinstalling WIN 98
You will have to delete the first 2.1 partition, then reboot and run F-Disk again and partition the whole drive as 4.3 gig. F-Disk, won't re-size a partition, Got everything together OK, but now im trying to unpartion a slave hard drive that has two partitions, 2 - 2.1 gig partitions on a 4.3 gig drive.

Partitioning Hard Drive for OS2
Have read and printed out a number of KB articles concerning partitioning and formatting the hard drive in Windows XP and various file systems. 2) As a consequence of your answer to question 1, what file system would you suggest as the best, most robust, keeping in mind XP Home does not have encryption only

Partitioning Hard Drive(s) Recommendations Please
I'm getting ready to reformat a 1080MB hard drive. Someone told me I'd get more storage if I create 2 partitions, as the minimum amount of disk space used by a tiny file doubles with a disk or partition size > 512 MB. This is true. Above 512 the minimum size jumps from 8k to 16k per file.