MCSE : Security Specialist
Partition
Windows 9x
To partition a hard disk use Fdisk, this is an MS-DOS-based
application that can be run from an MS-DOS command line or from
within Windows 9x if partitioning an additional hard drive.
With Fdisk You can do the following:
1. Create a partition or logical drive.
2. Set the active partition.
3. Delete a partition or logical drive.
4. Display partition information.
5. Change Current Fixed Disk Drive ( only If
the computer has two or more hard disks )
To create a primary MS-DOS partition
In the Fdisk Options screen, press 1, and then press ENTER. The
Create DOS Partition Or Logical DOS Drive screen appears.
Press 1, and then press ENTER. The Create Primary DOS Partition
screen appears.
If you want the partition to be the maximum size, press ENTER. Then
insert a Startup Disk in drive a:, and press any key.
If you do not want the partition to be the
maximum size, press n, and then press ENTER. Another Create Primary
DOS Partition screen appears.
To specify the partition size you want, follow the instructions
on-screen, and then press ENTER.
If you create the Primary partition to use the entire hard drive,
press ESC twice to exit FDISK, then reboot the computer to the
floppy disk.
If
you enable large disk support, any drives created will be FAT32. You
will have to use a boot disk created from the OS you used to
partition the drive, as win 95/NT cannot read FAT32 partitions
(win95 ORS 2 does support Fat32)
Fdisk
is not needed with windows 2000 as Disk Management prepares hard
disks.
Windows 2000
Disk Management, is a graphical tool for managing disks and volumes.
It supports partitions, logical drives, new dynamic volumes, and
remote disk management. To open Disk Management, click Start, point
to Settings, click Control Panel, double-click Administrative Tools,
and then double-click Computer Management. In the console tree under
Storage, click Disk Management. |
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