Re: [Freedos-user] why make partitions hidden?
Lester Vedrox wrote: AB Repartition disk (by FDISK or somethink like Partition Magic). EA Use a GOOD partition editor (not MS FDISK... preferrably something with a reasonable user interface and something which you are good at using. James, you should probably consider investing in partitioning software: PartitionMagic: http://www.partitionmagic.com/home_homeoffice/products/system_performance/pm80/index.html Partition Commander: http://www.v-com.com/product/Partition_Commander_Home.html Acronis Disk Director Suite: http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/diskdirector/ PartitionMagic used to be a leader in this field but it's dominance has been challenged lately by competitors. Partition Commander, for instance, allows converting NTFS partitions back to FAT, the feature that was absent in PartitionMagic. Acronis Disk Director Suite seems to have the best choice of features of all three products, but I have never tried it so can't comment on it. Lester I have been collecting partition tools since about 1990. I have several versions of Partition Magic and recent versions of the other two above. My weapon of choice is Partition Magic. It works fine on the current XP. On my laptop I used it to shrink the default full drive, single partition down to 10G and add several other types. It is also my backup system. I copy the boot partitions to another HDD. Ray ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] why make partitions hidden?
On Tue, 06 Jun 2006 22:28:00 +, you wrote: Hi Mark, http://gparted.sourceforge.net I would recommend trying that. The price is right! :-) Easy to use, the GUI really help understanding how the partition layout. Too bad it's too small for CD and too big for floppy, and need to boot Linux. Rgds, Johnson. ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] why make partitions hidden?
LV - Drive -, NTFS, primary, hidden, Windows XP LV - Drive -, NTFS, primary, hidden, Windows 2000 LV - Drive C, FAT32, primary, active, FreeDOS Eric Why would you make the ntfs drives hidden? DOS will not use them anyway... This is just an example of the most straightforward configuration (I think) for a poster who doesn't seem to have much experience with multi-boot systems. NTFS partitions in the above example could of course remain visible because FreeDOS will simply ignore any partition with a file system other than FAT12, FAT16 or FAT32. Arkady You can have 4 primary partitions or up to 3 primary partitions and one extended partition with any quantity of logical partitions. Thanks, Arkady for correcting my original message. I should have read it twice before posting. Lester -- ___ Surf the Web in a faster, safer and easier way: Download Opera 8 at http://www.opera.com Powered by Outblaze ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
