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Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 00:35:34 -0400
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Subject: Re: DRDOS FDISK
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How do you do 2 primary partitions?  I usually do a primary and an
exteneded and then make a logical DOS drive in the extended partition,
but wondered if there were other/better ways to partition my HD.

Chad Fernandez
Michigan, USA

Alain wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have successfully added a DR-DOS partition to a MS-DOS 7.1 (win98)
> system, but I didn't use DR-DOS's fdisk    ;-)
> 
> BTW, I lost the message with the information about what should be in
> the OEM signature to be MS-DOS compatible. Can someone please
> resend it to me?   :)
> 
> I found a problem in DR-DOS about the dive letters assigment. Let me
> describe it: if I have a drive (only one) with _two_ primary partitions and
> an extended partition, MS-DOS uses the active partition as C:, the
> extended partition as D: and the other extended partition as E:. This is a
> general rule: extra primary partitions go at the end. With DR-DOS, the
> first extended partition is C:, and the second is D:, leaving the extended
> partition as E:. The biggest problem is that if you put DR-DOS in the
> second partition it _cannot_ boot as it changes from C: to D: in the middle
> of the boot process. So if you want to have more than one partition
> to select which is active, DR-DOS HAS TO BE in the first one. I don't
> know for sure, but this may also afect DR-DOS+Linux in the same drive...
> 
> Alain