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Article #696Re: Partioning 560meg hard drive
From: ATronics International, Inc
Date: Fri, 03 Nov 1995 00:00
Date: Fri, 03 Nov 1995 00:00
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> Hi, hope someone can help me! > > I'm running Msdos 6.2 as my operating system. I currently have two > hard disks installed. C is a 420 meg seagate and D is a Quantum 560 > meg disk. I formatted D a while a go and got 504 meg out of the disk > from the format. I am now running short of disk space and need to know > if and how I can partition the disk into a rough 500 meg drive and a > 60 meg drive, thus using all the available space that the drive > offers. I've tried just deleteing the primary partition on D and > making a primary and extended partition using fdisk but it only > accepts that the drive has 504 meg available on it. I know Dos can't > handle anything above 500 meg, that's why I wanted to make the disk > two drives. But how? Can I alter the settings for it in the bios or > what? > > I would be grateful to anyone who can help and even more so if you > could reply to this directly by email so I more easily see if I have > recieved an answer or not. This message was cross posted to quite a > few newsgroups you see!!!! > > Thanks! > > Dominic > ******************************************************** > Computer Newbies Helpfile..... > Computers do not come with footpedals, that is the mouse. > Nor does a mouse have a dust cover, that is the packaging. > Make sure when you print writing onto a floppy disk label, > that it is not stuck on the disk at the time. > The keyboard does not have an "any" key, it is a generic > term for any key that is on the keyboard. > If a document won't print, switch on the printer!!!! > > Dominic@dplm.demon.co.uk > ******************************************************** > \\\ \\\ \\\ Hi We have the solution to your problem The IDEal Enhancer, Add on card that will permit you to partition your drive at full capacity above 540MB and yet it will allow LBA mode support for your drive. Complete plug and play solution, and by the way only one solution for Windows 95 It cost only $ 29 Any ? Please call ATronics Sales at 1-510-226-2613
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10d683,d6626dc5d0af6a59 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d683,public X-Google-Thread: f8e37,d6626dc5d0af6a59 X-Google-Attributes: gidf8e37,public X-Google-Thread: 107fa9,d6626dc5d0af6a59 X-Google-Attributes: gid107fa9,public X-Google-Thread: 107cbb,d6626dc5d0af6a59 X-Google-Attributes: gid107cbb,public X-Google-Thread: 1107e7,d6626dc5d0af6a59 X-Google-Attributes: gid1107e7,public X-Google-Thread: f4d7c,d6626dc5d0af6a59 X-Google-Attributes: gidf4d7c,public X-Google-Thread: 112044,d6626dc5d0af6a59 X-Google-Attributes: gid112044,public X-Google-Thread: f71eb,d6626dc5d0af6a59 X-Google-Attributes: gidf71eb,public From: "ATronics International, Inc" <atronics@best.com> Subject: Re: Partioning 560meg hard drive Date: 1995/11/03 Message-ID: <47bt3v$9v5@shellx.best.com> X-Deja-AN: 118611997 references: <815089990.23101@dplm.demon.co.uk> organization: Best Internet Communications newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.os.msdos.apps,comp.misc,cern.computing,bln.comp.misc,biz.comp.hardware,aus.computers.ibm-pc,alt.uu.comp.misc