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Partitioning Hard Drive
In any case, I have a 4550Z with 2 physical hard drives set up as 3 partitions. The recovery cd will work with a partitioned drive. Well, this was the weekend I's gonna get around to partitioning my 8 gig hard drive. Been reading and asking on the subject, and figured after I got it broken down into 4

two hd's on same IDE channel
Note: You may not have any or even an extended dos partition on your drive. 7. Next select 2 from the previous menu "Delete Extended DOS Partition" (Again you may not have one 8. Hi I was wondering if someone could tell me how to partition my hard drive. I only did it once and I cannot remember the steps anymore.

reformatting and partitioning hard drive
Philo ph...@plazaearth.com comp os os2 misc fdisk is a destructive partitioning tool. if you have just aC: drive right now with win3.1 on it and no D drive need a utility such as partition magic however if you have win3.1 on your C: drive and you have an unused D: drive you may just go ahead with your os/2

what's the point of creating a partition?
... Wells wrote: <I used Hard Disk Mechanic and it did something useful> I responded: <I used HDM (bought in the US 2-3 years ago) a few times and it always caused mayhem, In the current case it did seem to do the job as far as assigning a drive letter to the logical drive in the extended DOS partition.

About partitioning hard drive
However, placing data files on a partition or physical hard drive separate from the operating system and applications can greatly simplify system repairs/recoveries and data back-up. 2) I'm not in favor of several primary partitions (one primary and and the exended with the 3 or 4 logical drives is enough).

Partitioning Hard Drive
Strike 2: He is impervious to all attempts to help him understand the issues. Strike 3: His products are unusable due to the unbelievably awkward 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:\.

2 Macs: FW Target DM questions
It is currently equipped with two hard drives, a 4 GB drive that has the current Win98 install and a 2 GB drive used for data. I'm looking for a reasonable partitioning plan. I've come up with the following first approximation: mount point type size comment (none) vfat 2 GB Windows boot OK / ext2 2 GB Linux

partitioning a hard drive prior to XP upgrade ?
And bear in mind that in the event of hard drive failure, how many partitions there were on that failed disk will not make the slightest difference to you. The real protection that you need is regular backup, and to removable media. However you decide to partition, don't think of it as a substitute for regular

Partitioning hard drive
Most HP Pavilion PCs have only one primary DOS partition. 2.. If an extended DOS partition is on the hard drive, a message will appear stating, "The Extended DOS Partition contains logical drives, do you want to display the logical drive information (Y/N)?" Press Y and ENTER to view the logical drive information.

Partitioning hard drive--reinstalling WIN 98
Run Atapi.exe on the disk and the new Atapi.sys file is extracted to the disk. Label the disk "Microsoft ATAPI Service Pack 4 IDE Driver." 2. 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 for OS2
A two-partition hard drive would typically contain "C:" and "D:" drives. (CD-ROM drives typically are assigned the last letter in whatever sequence of letters have been At Command Prompt , type "Fdisk" 2. This will be the menu you now see. 1. Create DOS partition or Logical DOS Drive 2. Set active partition 3.

Partitioning hard drive
To partition the hard drive into 4 partitions. The first partition (about 500M) would be used by MS-DOS. The second partition (about 500M) would be used by I was thinking to make the first 2 partitions with DOS fdisk, and then to install Win95 on the 2nd partition. After that, I'd boot with a DOS floppy and

Disk Druid , mount hard drive, partitioning hard drive
The fdisk is from FP-14 or 15 (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

Partitioning hard drive
They had 2 partitions, both FAT16, but they were running Win95B, and the user had just about filled up C: because he didn't know about D:. So... I moved what few files were on D: over to C:, booted to my Partition Magic disk, deleted D:, converted C: to FAT32, and expanded C: to fill the whole drive. VIOLA!

Help with partitioning hard drive
Lasher jlas...@buckeye-express.com 24hoursupport helpdesk Thanks for the help, but I dont think you can partition your hard drive this way. Try This:- 1) Boot up into the BIOS (or CMOS) 2) Change the boot sequence to CD ROM first 3) save, exit 4) Boot up, putting WinXP into drive 5) Boot from CD Then XP will

Partitioning hard drive
Hi all, Am going to be needing a new (bigger) hard drive soon. In the past I have always partitioned it into 2 drives, one for the operating system and programs and one for my data. Do you all still do this or does the majority of you just use one partition? Thanks, Carol van.

15 GB Hard drive on Indigo 2 running IRX 5.3
Here goes; My system is configured as follows: Hard Drive 1 (IDE1, Master): 8 Gb Partition 1: 4Gb, Windows 98 SE Partition 2: 4Gb, split into 3.8Gb linux Hard Drive 2: (SCSI Device): 6 Gb, single partition Hard Drive 3: (IDE 2, Master): IBM Deskstar 30Gb Split into 3 partitions of roughly 10Gb. CD-ROM drive

Partitioning a new HD for dual boot
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. Classic AT BIOS (on which this is all based) will check A:, then C: (primary on 1st hard drive). Modern BIOSs allow reverse order (C: before A: - *hightly*

Re-partitioning a hard drive
A popular installer had a bug several years ago where the setup program would not understand when your free space was larger than 2 GB. -----Original Message----- In the XP works great, but some of my programs won't install or run because my hard drive doesn't appear to have enough space to store the file.

Completely re-format/re-partition hard drive
Then, I booted to a second copy of Win2K on the second drive and used Win2K's Disk Management to delete those volumes from the first drive and create 2 volumes (3GB D: and It also helped that all volumes except C: are in the extended partition, which makes it easier to do things like delete and recreate them.