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re: A 2-part question
Thursday, June 21, 2007 at 7:42 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by bob wells
(1314 messages posted)
Jim,
I know your original goal was to merge the two partitions, unfortunately that cannot
be done with Fdisk.exe.
Short of that, and making the 5130mb usable again, formatting D:\ is the only option
available without third party Software. So you'll have to decide if having the space
available as D:\ will work for you.
If so, proceed with formatting D:\. This will render the space useable and get rid
of all the Data on the partition.
I would delete as many of the program files for DISE as you can locate before you
format, just to reduce the chance that DISE would start writing to the D:\ partition
again
If you want to proceed, ESCAPE Fdisk to the A:\prompt, type Format D: then hit enter.
When finished, pull the floppy and restart your computer. you'll have 100% of the
5130 mb space on D:\ to use as you see fit.
Verify this in My Computer before you attempt to use the formatted space on D:.
You're right, DOS wont forgive you if you type Format C:, although it will give you
the chance to change your mind.
BW
On Thursday, June 21, 2007 at 12:32 pm, Jim Helwig wrote:
>Hi Bob, I didn't have time write back this morning, was on my way to work. I did
>get the boot disk to work. However, I haven't done anything yet. I learned in my
>early DOS days to proceed slowly, because DOS can be very unforgiving.
>The info. I got from fdisk is as follows. Heading says "Current fixed disk drive
>1" There are several headings beneath, which are Partition, Status, Type, Vol. label,
>Mbytes, System, and Usage.
>The info. beneath the headings is as follows: (Partition) C 1, (Status) A, (Type)
>Primary DOS, (Volume label) PV10D0, (Mbytes) 14410, (System) FAT32, (Usage) 74%
Beneath
>this first line of info, there is a 2nd line of info, which is (same headings) (Part.)
>2, (Status) - nothing entered, (Type) Ext. DOS, (Vol. label) - nothing entered,
(Mbytes)
>5130, (System) - nothing entered, (Usage) 26%
>If I click Yes on a paragraph below indicating that I want to see the logical drive
>info. the following appears: (Drive) D, (Volume label) - nothing entered, (Mbytes)
>5130, (System) FAT32, (Usage) 100%
>Total extended dos partition size is 5130 Mbytes.
>I guess my question is - Is this what you expected to be displayed and do I continue
>with the format?
>
>
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