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Help please partitioning hard drive
My 2 gb memory card from my camera is too small I think. (Perhaps not if I removed the printer drivers, fonts, non-English languages, etc ? There are technical issues with the type of partitioning on the hard drive which might complicate things. PPC Macs can only boot from an "Apple Partition Map" drive,

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Hello, I have a 12 gb hard drive that I am considering partitioning to 3 or ? partitions. I plan on only using the present win 98 op system on all. I have been only running about 2 gb on the hard disk. I thought it would be better to have a different drive for my digital camera pictures, Midi files, and misc. files

reformatting and partitioning hard drive
I was told my motherboard will NOT support the full 10Gb from the Maxtor drive, but only offer 8.4Gb, thus adding the 2Gb Quantum to read as one 10Gb total. I have yet to format/partition the Maxtor as I contemplate my next move: I was also told that to spare partitioning the hard drive (which one?

Help partitioning hard drive
Hi Everybody, I am about to buy a Dell computer with a 320 GByte hard drive. Does anyone have any suggestions for partitioning the hard drive to maximize performance. Specifically, I was thinking of three partitions -- Vista, applications, and data. 1. Will partitioning degrade performance. 2.

HELP! Partitioning Hard Drive
I currently have a 1 gig hard drive installed, abd have purchased a 4.2 gig drive cheaply. I am thinking of installing the 4.3 as a slave so that I dont have to reload Windows 95. Ken Blake To send me E-mail, delete the "X" in my address so it must be 2 x 2gig (one for internet stuff and one for office stuff).

Partitioning hard drive--reinstalling WIN 98
Why won't FAT16 recognoze a partition of the size. Is not 2.1 the limit? Yes it is. The exact number is 65536 clusters of 32768 bytes each equals 2147483648 bytes. For pure computer theory purposes this is exactly 2 gigabytes. For hard disk salesmen this is 2.1 gigabytes. kb = 1.024 not 1000 mb = 1048576 not

40 GB hard drive OS/2 won't boot
The proper way is to fdisk for delete and re-partition. The next step will be reboot and format. On Fri, 22 Dec 2000 03:19:47 GMT, "jiwan singh" <kk...@worldnet.att.net> wrote: Is it possible to partitoin the D drive ? I have partitiond C drive in to 2 drives, C & DI have window 95 on C . Can I formate D drive only

Partitioning hard drive
Ken Blake kbl...@this.is.an.invalid.domain microsoft public windowsxp general In news:sl2td.199873$HA.164915@attbi_s01, Mark M. <countrymanorbuild...@NOTcomcast.net> typed: 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

format a 1G HD in 1 or 2 partitions?
Currently I have aC: hard drive and aD: CD-Rom drive. I'd like to partition my hard drive so that i can have drives C: and D: on my hard drive and move my Said risk is SMALL, to be sure - today's versions of DriveSpace are MUCH better than what we worked with as recently as 2 years ago - but it's still a risk.

partitioning hard drive & /usr is already 96% full
The advantage is you can format and restart each partition without the worry about the loss of info. on other partitions. You can stops kids filling the hard disk with all the games they can find. 2. You can defrag and scan the drives independently. Also fragmentation of the drive will be less if you keep only

What is trick to installing Win98 and OS/2?
Walter Roberson rober...@ibd.nrc.ca comp sys sgi admin In article <8l21lj$1gp...@news.cuny.edu>, lloyd <willi...@genectr.hunter.cuny.edu> wrote: I am trying to install a 15 GB hard drive to a SGI Indigo 2 running IRIX 5.3. Does any one know if it is possible to partition the hard drive into two seven and a half GB

What is trick to installing Win98 and OS/2?
If I load a program into a partition that is larger than 2 gigs, will it spill over automatically into the next partition? Or do I have to limit the size of the program to the size of the partition? And: My operating system is on the C. Will it recognize a program on the F drive, for example?

From Wintel to Lintel: The Undiscovered Country
Currently, I'm running Windows 98SE and when I purchased my computer they divided my 25 Gig Hard Drive into a 2 gig and 23 gig C and D drives. WinXP would have trouble installing into a 2 Gig space. It would probably insall its program files onto the larger partition, if you left things as they are.

Help! "Phantom Hard Drive" appearing in Windows...
(Although it wasn'ta failure, more a new printer driver giving me hassle!). In particular I am wondering whether I should partition the 1.2G hard disk or not. Use a 2-300 Mb partition for Win95 - this should allow ample size for Win95 to 'expand'. Use (I would anyway) the rest of the disk for data (your

cannot partition hard drive!
I have yet to format/partition the Maxtor as I contemplate my next move: I was also told that to spare partitioning the hard drive (which one? 2. If you cannot flash, you may want to look into a PCI IDE controller which supports large drives. Dan Bush Battle Ground.wa.us Please No Spam, to email, change .com to

Partitioning hard drive using fdisk
When I try to partition my hard drive using fips it reports the following ***** FIPS has detected that the 'physical' start or end sector Error: Invalid jump instruction in boot sector: 00 00 00 The first three bytes of the boot sector must be a 3-byte jump (E9 xx xx) or a 2-byte jump (EB xx 90).

Partitioning Hard Drive
Much too often threads have three or four posts- 1)question 2)answer 3)thanks 4)optional) you're welcome or how about. Write a boot record/partition table entry/whatever that impliments these settings", it's scribble on paper and hack in by hand, and in the case of boot records, I find that tricky.

Partitioning hard drive
I just used FDISK, actually, with my 2 GB SCSI-2 hard drive. I wanted to reduce the wasted space of one huge partition, and I needed to reformat to clean up a corrupted Windows 95 driver database. I found that choosing a partition size of 511 caused FDISK to round up to 512, so I opted for four 510 MB partitions.

General recommendations re:partitioning hard drive?
OTOH, OS 9.2.2 is the best OS 9 version. Depends how much old software you have, and how much time you have to learn a new OS. of using new hard drive for video - should I partition hard drive so 50% is for video capture and 50% is for editing (change %'s) - Why stop at 60? Get a 120 GB drive. I partition 2:1.

Partitioning hard drive during set up
John H. Chauvin jchau...@netcom.com comp sys mac hardware misc comp sys mac system comp sys mac misc I would like people's opinion regarding a partition scheme I am considering for my 2.0 GB hard drive. I plan on upgrading to Mac OS 7.6 and repartitioning my hard drive as follows: 1. Mac OS (200 MB) 2.