HARDDISK PARTITION USING FDISK

Press Esc to exit FDISK

Press Enter to select the default [1]. The following screen will be displayed:

Create DOS Partition or Logical DOS Drive

Current fixed disk drive: 1

Choose one of the following:

1. Create Primary DOS Partition

2. Create Extended DOS Partition

3. Create Logical DOS Drive(s) in the Extended DOS Partition

Enter choice: [1]

Press Esc to return to FDISK Options

Again, press Enter to select the default. The following will be displayed

Create Primary DOS partition

Current fixed disk drive : 1

Verifying drive integrity, xx% complete.

Current fixed disk drive: 1

Do you wish to use the maximum available size for a primary DOS partition

and make the partition active (Y/N) ....................? [Y]

At this point you can press the Enter key and make the entire drive one partition, your C: drive, or enter N and make a partition which occupies less than the entire drive. If you have a large drive, you may want to consider putting more than one partition on it; i.e., make you C: drive 1-2 GB and the rest of the drive (a second partition) your D: drive. You will find that a smaller C: drive will run faster and take a lot less time to defrag. I leave putting more than one partition on the drive as an exercise for the more adventurous. Just be sure the partition for the C: drive is set active and logical drives are assigned to each of the partitions. You may want to experiment...

After creating an active partition on the hard drive reboot the computer to the Startup Floppy and format the drive as follows:

A:\> format c:

Do not use the /s flag with the format command. We do not want to transfer the system files from the floppy to the hard disk. Windows 98 will not install on the hard disk if it already has the system files on it.