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To:	<opendos AT delorie DOT com>
From:	"Mark at Cross+Road's" <mark1 AT mich DOT com>
Date:	Mon, 23 Oct 2000 22:14:35 +0400
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Subject:	fdisk from V#703
Reply-To:	opendos AT delorie DOT com

Hello All,
    I've installed V703 on a Compaq deskpro 2000 and desire to use fdisk to

partition the 1st hard-drive which is 1600 mb.  There is a small partition
of 7.8 mb already there and it's related to Compaq's internals.  What is
happening when I choose the active drive C to make a new extended nonbootable
partition is that fdisk tells me that there is not enough free disk space on

the drive to make the partition?  This doesn't make sense to me since only
400 mb is filled and that there is plenty of space and anyways I thought
that the other partitions would be destroyed anyways when making the new
one?
    How can I split this drive up into more than 1 large drive using fdisk
from Drdos #703?  I've already tried the "/X" option and that makes no
difference.
    Also, what does the option under fdisk which says make a 32-fat
partition do?  Is that only for Win95-98?
     Thanks,
       Mark

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