Hello, I have not been active on the list but I figured I would respond
to the advantage of partitioning a hard drive. First if you use a boot
disk just to get to a C:\ prompt, then hopefully you will have the fdisk
command on your boot disk. After getting to C:\ prompt, then just type
in fdisk and enter.
You will then see the part about asking if you want to enable hard disk
support. Of course you do.
Then the next step will to create primary dos partition. It will ask if
you want to use all available for primary and I would suggest using 10
percent. You will also want to make that active as that will be your
boot drive. What that will enable you to do is use 4 gig for the
operating system which will be C drive where all the action takes
place. When you run scandisk it will take much less time and when the
hard drive eventually dies or that partition becomes corrupted you will
hopefully not lose all your unbacked up data. After making the primary
partiton, you should then be able to boot from the 98 cd and it will
then take care of the rest if you pretty much agree with what it
suggests. I have not built a new system for a few months so I an a bit
rusty on the exact commands that will come up. But I believe large
drives should be broken up in smaller sections, which allow the system
to run faster because the operating system does not need to access 40
gig of information when it can get just working in 4 gig. Kinda like
using a whole parking lot to turn around in when you only need a small
area.
Good luck
Bill Anderson
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