If you did that, you'd end up with either one big empty C: drive or four
small ones which aren't usable. You need to use FORMAT to prepare *each*
partition after setting them up on the disk. FDISK is used to set the
boundaries of partitions on hard drives.
To turn your drive C: into C:, D:, E: and F:, you need to do this:
* Back up the data, as you already have.
* Run FDISK and delete the current DOS partition (option 3)
* Create the four new partitions - still in FDISK:
* First create a 'primary' partition - option 1, suboption 1. When asked
if you want to use all the space, press 'N', and enter a size - '525' in
this case.
* Now create an 'extended' partition - option 1, suboption 2. Answer 'Y'
to the use all available space prompt.
* Then create the last three drives - option 1, suboption 3. For each,
say you don't want all the available space, and enter '525' when prompted
for the amount to use.
* Exit from FDISK - press Escape at the main menu. It'll ask you to insert
your boot diskette, and then it'll reboot your machine.
* You'll be at the DOS prompt. Fire up your screen-reader from the second
floppy disk.
* Now you can start formatting the drives:
* FOR %D IN (C D E F) DO FORMAT %D: will format each one in turn, or you
could just type FORMAT C:, then FORMAT D: etc.
* Finally, SYS your C: drive (type SYS C:) - this copies MS-DOS onto the
disk so it can be booted from.
>From there, you can get one with reinstalling stuff and unzipping your data.
Regards,
Ben A L Jemmett
(http://web.ukonline.co.uk/ben.jemmett/, http://www.deltasoft.com/)
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