Message-Id: <200010240214.WAA12935@xellos.bignet.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 To: From: "Mark at Cross+Road's" Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 22:14:35 +0400 X-Mailer: Net-Tamer 1.12.0 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