On Sat, 9 Jun 2001, Cristian Burneci wrote:

> >  
> > The partition table in the MBR (and IDE drives, I think) can contain
> > up to four entries for "primary" partitions.  If there are logical
> > partitions, one of these entries is a "container" partition for the
> > logical partitions.  There is not a problem accessing more than one
> > primary partition under DOS.  I have a 386 with MS-DOS, PTS-DOS and
> > FreeDOS on separate bootable partitions.  Each OS can readily access
> > all three partitions.
> > Ken Martwick
> 
> So it was only a DOS/Windows FDISK limitation then?

That's right.  Look for the FreeDOS fdisk program it lets you do many
more things.  There's a link at http://www.fdisk.com.
Ken


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