When I’m working from home and my laptop is docked (as shown). I wanted to use my main keyboard, (Logitech G15) and mouse (Cyborg R.A.T. 9), to control both the main PC and my work laptop.
As it turned out when I finished I could also use the laptop keyboard and touch pad to control the main PC as well, and I could drag and drop files between desktops.
Solution
1. Download Microsoft Mouse Without Borders, it does not really matter which machine you install it on first, I chose the main PC. Run the setup file and accept all the defaults.
2. I hadn’t, so I clicked no.
3. Fair enough, I left this on the main screen and installed the software on my laptop.
4. Post laptop install, select yes.
5. Supply the code and computer name from the main PC, Click Link. (Note: mine failed for a while because XPS-630i responds from the internet! so I had to put it in my hosts file you should NOT have this problem).
6. Next.
7. Done.
8. After a few seconds the settings panel will launch, you can DRAG your machines into the right order > Apply.
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This section assumes you have multiple partitions, and goes through the steps needed to remove them using FDISK
WARNING: Removing partitions DESTROYS all the data in those partitions, make sure you have a backup of your important information.
For this example the hard drive in question has a PRIMARY partition (approx 2Gb) and two LOGICAL DRIVES (each approx 1Gb) if I’ve just confused the hell out of you CLICK HERE
Solution
Deleting Partitions
1. First ensure you have a windows 98SE Bootdisk, you can download one, CLICK HERE
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.
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.
4. This is the main FDISK menu, as we are Deleting partitions we need to change the selection from the default [1] to [3] “Delete partition or logical DOS Drive” Press 3 then {enter}
5. Now remember the LOGICAL drives must be deleted FIRST so we need to select “Delete logical DOS Drive(s) in the Extended partition” Press 3 then {enter}
6. Now the system will display the logical drives, work your way BACKWARDS, the last drive letter here is E so simply push E then {enter}.
7. FDISK will ask you for the volume label – ours does not have one so we can simply press {enter} if yours does it will be listed above in the volume label column.
8. At this point you must confirm by pressing Y then {enter}
9. The default view will change to show you that E: drive has been deleted, and you can continue to delete the D: drive, simply press D then {enter}.
10. Again it will prompt for volume label (See step 8 above).
11. You will be asked to confirm press Y then {enter}.
12. You will now see the Logical drives are BOTH deleted, press Esc to exit.
13. At the confirmation page just press Esc.
14. Back at the main menu! Now the LOGICAL drives are gone you can delete the EXTENDED partition. Press 3 then {enter}.
15. To remove the EXTENDED partition press 2 then {enter}.
16. There is only one EXTENDED partition so press Y then {enter}.
17. More confirmation! Just Press Esc.
18. Now the EXTENDED Partition is gone you can remove the PRIMARY partition press 3 then {enter}.
19. Well we know we want the PRIMARY gone so press 1 then {enter}.
20. Its the only one there :0) Press 1 then {enter}.
21. If you have a volume label enter it, if not press {enter}.
22. Press Y then {enter}.
23. Confirmation screen, just press Esc.
24. Nearly done! Press Esc.
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 removed.
Now you’re done you can either repartition the drive OR if you’re installing Windows 2000 or XP let it do it for you as part of the install process.
To set up simple partitioning (One Partition, one Drive Letter) CLICK HERE
To set up complex partitioning (multiple partitions, multiple drive letters) CLICK HERE
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This section assumes you want multiple partitions, and goes through the steps needed to create them using FDISK.
For this example the hard drive in question will have a PRIMARY partition (approx 2Gb) and two LOGICAL DRIVES (each approx 1Gb) if I’ve just confused the hell out of you CLICK HERE
Solution
Creating Partitions
1. First ensure you have a windows 98SE Bootdisk, you can download one, CLICK HERE
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.
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.
4. This is the main FDISK menu, as we are creating partitions we need to create a DOS partition press 1 then {enter}.
5. Now remember that PRIMARY partitions MUST be created first so press 1 then {enter}.
6. FDISK does a drive check, just wait.
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}.
8. FDISK does another drive check, just wait.
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}.
10. This just confirms the partition was created, press Esc.
11. Now we are back at the main menu, we need to start creating an EXTENDED partition, so press 1 then {enter}.
12. EXTENDED partition is number two so press 2 then {enter}.
13. Yet another drive check, more waiting :0)
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}
15. Just a confirmation screen, we can see our nice new partitions now, press Esc.
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)
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}.
18. And there she is! time for FDISK to do yet another drive check, just wait.
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}.
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.
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}.
22. There’s your PRIMARY partition at the top, so press 1 then {enter}.
23. Now FDISK tells us the partition is active, press Esc.
24. Back wherewe started :0) Press Esc.
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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