To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2000 11:13:58 -0700 Subject: Re: Again about NTFSDOS Message-ID: <20000708.124958.-589667.0.domanspc@juno.com> X-Mailer: Juno 4.0.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Juno-Line-Breaks: 0-8,10-39 X-Juno-Att: 0 X-Juno-RefParts: 0 From: Robert W Moss Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Thanks for the info. I had read about PART.EXE in some years ago in DOS WORLD Magazine, but it had slipped back into the recesses of my cluttered mind. Now I will have to go look it up. BOB 'DOMAN' MOSS -- "Put 'BUY CHOCOLATE' at the top of your 'TO DO' list, then eat it!" On Wed, 05 Jul 2000 17:24:44 +0500 Sandy Archer writes: > At 07:36 PM 07/03/2000 -0700, Robert W Moss > wrote: > >Using the > >Standard DOS Fdisk you can create only 2 partitions on a HD, one > >primary and one extended, however, you can divide the extended > >partition into as many as 25 logical partitions. You have to use > some > >other program, such as Partition Magic or Gnu Linux Fdisk, to get > >more partitions, or to have more than one primary partition. > > > I have found Michel Ranish's PART.EXE is a very useful program that > can > make a large number of boot partitions (upto 32) on the hd and also > install > a boot manager. However it is only for the initiated and not for the > novice. > > I am not ware of the current location of the program, which I think > is at > least free for personal use. The locations used to change a bit and > last > time it was at http://user.intercom.com/~ranish ; maybe the url is > wrong. > The older version part.exe is better manageable than the new > partbeta.exe > > Good Luck Sandy > > ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.