From: Paul Khoury (pkhoury_at_loop.com)
Date: Fri Sep 18 1998 - 13:59:13 EDT
>The fdisk program is a DOS application that sets up partitions on your
>hard drives. You need to use it first to create the partition(s), then
>use format to make them usable. After those steps you should be able to
>use the drive. I'm no expert on fdisk, so I don't know exactly what
>options you need to use. I'm sure you can find that info on the web or
>someone else in the list will chime in.
>
One thing you should know - with DOS fdisk, you can only create one primary partition,
which means you can only boot from one partition. You can then make one logical
partition, and up to 25 extended drives (or is it the other way around, ext. part., log. drv?).
OS/2 fdisk and Linux fdisk let's you use up to 4 primary partitions, for multiple OSes.
And I think the Macintosh even has a disk partioning utility, though I only know that it comes on
the Disk Tools disk (I'm going to also upgrade my Mac soon).
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