Creating
Partitions |
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1.
First ensure you have a windows 98SE Bootdisk, you can
download one, CLICK
HERE
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2. Boot the
PC with your boot disk, ENSURE the boot order is set in
the BIOS to boot from the floppy disk BEFORE the hard
drive. |
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3.To launch
FDISK simply type fdisk {enter} at the command prompt,
when the program launches press the Y key and {enter}
to enable large drive support. |
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4. This is
the main FDISK menu, as we are creating partitions we
need to create a DOS partition press 1 then {enter}. |
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5. Now remember
that PRIMARY partitions MUST be created first so press
1 then {enter}. |
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6. FDISK
does a drive check, just wait. |
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7. At this
point we DON'T want the default setting or the PRIMARY
partition would take up the whole drive, press N then
{enter}. |
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8. FDISK does
another drive check, just wait. |
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9. You need
to type in the size (In Megabytes) that you want the PRIMARY
partition to be, this is a 4 Gb drive so I've typed 2048
Mb (2Gb) then press {enter}. |
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10. This just
confirms the partition was created, press Esc. |
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11. Now we
are back at the main menu, we need to start creating an
EXTENDED partition, so press 1 then {enter}. |
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12. EXTENDED
partition is number two so press 2 then {enter}. |
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13. Yet another
drive check, more waiting :0) |
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14. Now we
want to use the rest of the drive for the EXTENDED partition
and by default it will show us this value. Press {enter} |
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15. Just a
confirmation screen, we can see our nice new partitions
now, press Esc. |
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16. Now because
we've got an EXTENDED partition and no LOGICAL DRIVES,
it gets us to create them by default, after another drive
check of course :0) |
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17. Now by
default it will try and use the whole EXTENDED partition,
as we want two logical drives, we don't want it to do
this, so type in the size (In Megabytes) of the drive
you want, in this case I've used 1024Mb (1Gb) then press
{enter}. |
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18. And there
she is! time for FDISK to do yet another drive check,
just wait. |
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19. Now it
wants us to use up the rest of the EXTENDED partition,
if you want a LOT of LOGICAL DRIVES you can keep going,
as we only want two just press {enter}. |
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20. OK there's
our two LOGICAL DRIVES and FDISK is telling us that we
have used up all the EXTENDED partition, just press Esc. |
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21. Now the
last thing we need to do is make the PRIMARY partition
active (so you can boot from it) press 2 then {enter}. |
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22. There's
your PRIMARY partition at the top, so press 1 then {enter}. |
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23. Now FDISK
tells us the partition is active, press Esc. |
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24. Back where
we started :0) Press Esc. |
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25. Press
Esc to exit FDISK, when you are back at command line press
Ctrl+Alt+Del to reboot the PC. All your partitions are
now created. |
Once
the PC has rebooted you can format each drive using
the format c: command (substitute c for all your other
drives. If you're going to install windows 2000 or XP
you won't need to do this it can be done from the operating
system setup.
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