John, I wanted to take just a couple of minutes to follow up with you today. After reading your comments and experiences, I googled diskpart yesterday afternoon and took a crash course in it . I found many articles, etc which were helpful. I am happy to report that I was able to accomplish what I wanted to and much more. I learned a lot and actually find it quite easy now that I understand it. One very helpful reference I found was a table of commands on the below website. I kept for future reference. Once on the web page simply hit T to take you to the first cell of the table. It has 3 columns named Command, Syntax, and description.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc766465(WS.10).a spx Al -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]on Behalf Of Jon Pierson Sent: Monday, October 05, 2009 2:06 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Creating Partitions with JAWS Hi Al, I've used it mainly on Server2003 where I couldn't install my version of Partition Magic. I googled for many of the commandline options as the help is somewhat lame. Jon -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alan & Terrie Robbins Sent: Monday, October 05, 2009 10:53 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Creating Partitions with JAWS John, Thanks, I may check this out. Where id you get the discpart info and have you ever used it? Al -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]on Behalf Of Jon Pierson Sent: Monday, October 05, 2009 1:18 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Creating Partitions with JAWS Hi Al, The help system for Disk Management says to click on a portion of the graphic that represents the drive. I was able to do this but mostly it was luck. Even if set to the graphical view, routing Jaws to things was a dubious process. There is an alternative however. You may want to check out Diskpart. You can run diskpart from the commandline and you would type select disk 1 create partition primary to add a partition to that disk. Select chooses a disk to work on, detail disk gives you info on the selected disk. Many other useful commands are available. Jon -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alan & Terrie Robbins Sent: Monday, October 05, 2009 7:05 AM To: Blind-Computing Subject: [Blind-Computing] Creating Partitions with JAWS I have been fooling around this morning with a spare 160 GB hard drive that I want to create 2 partitions on, one of which will hold an image I want to put on it with the Image for Windows program. In the past my wife has provided some sighted assistance with this task but I would like to learn to do the process with JAWS. I have successfully removed the old partitions with the computer management option. I proceeded down the tree of options and landed on disc management. Depending on how you set the view you can see either drive volumes (on partitioned drives) or just view drives. When displaying the volumes, I was able to go to the action menu, all tasks sub menu and then delete old partitions I wanted to get rid of. However, I do not see any options for creating partitions and selecting what size one would want them. What steps do I need to do to accomplish this? thanks Al For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
