Mail Archives: opendos/2000/09/05/21:21:20
At 09/03/2000 09:46 AM Paul O. Bartlett wrote like this:
>
> Anyway, my main concern is not to mess up what I already have on my
>C: drive, which is the only physical hard disk I have on my system. Not
>having all the documentation yet, I am supposing so far that first I
>would have to defragment the drive using something like the 'doze
>defragmenter to make sure that things are compacted. Then I would use
>something like Partition Magic (which I have not acquired yet) to
>create a new partition, which I suppose would be D:. (Presumably this
>would bump my Zip and CD drives down to E: and F:. They are now D: and
>E:.) I want to *keep* my current 'doze system, which is why I would
>think that I need to use something like Partition Magic rather than
>FDISK to create a FAT16 partition.
>
There are a number of DOS utilities that can accomplish all what you want
that Partition Magic can do. Just I do not want to clutter up the mailboxes
of all here with the details. You can go to my page on hard disk management
and download the utilities through the links provided there.
http://members.tripod.com/~diligent/harddisk.htm
HTH
Good Luck Sandy
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