Creating an Extended Partition

This section describes how to create an extended partition of 8MB, designated as drive D. If you completed the steps described in the previous section, you should already have a primary partition of 32MB if you have a 40MB hard disk. The primary partition is designated as drive C.

After you have formatted the partitions, your computer operates as if it had two separate hard disks-a 32MB drive C and an 8MB drive D. If you prefer a different arrangement-for example, a 20MB drive C and a 20MB drive D-or if you want to split your 20MB hard disk into two partitions, see the instructions for FDISK in your MS-DOS Reference Manual. The MS-DOS manual also describes how to create multiple drives in the extended partition.

Note

Splitting a hard disk into two logical drives does not require you to run the setup program to change the configuration information. The setup program is concerned only with the number of physical disk drives in your system.

Follow these steps to create an extended partition on the hard disk and designate it as drive D:

1.Insert the working copy of your Startup/Operating 1 diskette in drive A if it is not there already.

2.At the A> prompt, type FDISK and press Enter.

3.Press 1 to select the Create DOS Partition option and press Enter.

4.Press2 to select Create Extended DOS Partition

and press Enter. The screen displays a message similar to this:

Total disk space is 1023 cylinders. Maximum space available for partition is 252 cylinders.

Enter partition size...........

[252]

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