From: Rich_Chong_at_mail.share.org
Date: Mon Sep 21 1998 - 11:51:12 EDT
Bill, I assume you mean fdisk and not fduisk ;-).
I was Incorrect about not being able to create an extended partition,
without a primary defined, using FDISK. To clarify Bill's briefness, an
EXTENDED DOS drive is just a drive without any primary partitions. Just use
FDISK to create an extended partition and then a logical drive(s) within
that partition (i.e. logical partitions).
fwiw, that extended partition will be a tad shorter than the maximum size
of the drive, because the extended partition cannot reside on the first
track (or cylinder?) of the drive.
rich
>sorry to be brief, but use fduisk and make the 2nd HDD an EXTENDED DOS
drive..
>
>this is one reason i favor single partitions on HDD's.. :-)
>
>Rich_Chong_at_mail.share.org wrote:
>>
>> >You'd wind up with:
>> >
> >>Drive 1 = (primary) = C: (logical) = E: (logical) = F:
>> >Drive 2 = (primary) = D: (logical) = G:
>> >
> >>Yes, I know it's stupid - doing it this way means adding a
>> >second drive changes the letters on the first drive's logical
>> >drives, making programs and OSes on your first drive
> >>unusuable. But tell Microsoft that.
>>
>> The way around that is to not create a primary partition on the second
>> drive. But FDISK wont let you do that, so another tool must be used,
like > OS/2's fdisk or Partition magic. Is there a simpler DOS based
utility to do > this?
>>
>> Rich
>
>--
>Happy Trails...
>
>** Bill Morrow ** :-)
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