Now that you have removed all of the partitions from your hard drive, it is now
time to partition your hard drive. To partition a master hard disk, you will use
the fdisk command.
Fdisk is a DOS and Windows
utility that is used to partition a hard disk, which is necessary before high-
level formatting.
Below are the complete instructions to walk you through the process of creating
partitions on your hard drive.
1.) Insert the Startup disk in the floppy disk drive, restart your computer.
When the Microsoft Windows 98 Startup menu is displayed, select the Start
computer without CD-ROM support menu option, and then press Enter.
At a command prompt, type fdisk, and then press Enter.
2.) Do you wish to enable large disk support?
Press Y and then press Enter. This will enable the FAT32 file system
3.) After you press Enter, the following fdisk options menu is displayed:
Create DOS partition or Logical DOS Drive
Set active partition
Delete partition or Logical DOS Drive
Display partition information
Change current fixed disk drive
**Note** that option 5 is available only if you have two physical hard disks in
the computer.
4.) Press 1 to select the Create DOS partition or Logical DOS Drive menu option,
and then press Enter.
5.) Press 1 to select the Create Primary DOS Partition menu option, and then
press Enter.
6.) After you press Enter, you receive the following message: Do you wish to use
the maximum available size for primary DOS partition?
A.) After you receive this message, use the following method:
B.) Press Y if you want all of the space on the hard disk to be assigned to
drive C, press Y, and then press Enter. Go to Step 7
C.) Press N if you do not want all of the space on the hard disk to be assigned
to drive C.
a.) If you select N then continue to follow these instructions.
b.) Enter the size of the partition you wish to make and then press Enter.
c.) Press ESC.
d.) Press 1 to select the Create DOS partition or Logical DOS Drive menu option,
and then press Enter.
e.) Press 2 to select the Create Extended Partition menu option, and then press
Enter.
f.) Press Enter to create an extended DOS partition that uses up the rest of the
hard drive.
g.) Press ESC. After pressing ESC fdisk will automatically try to create a
logical DOS drive.
h.) Enter the size of the second partition you wish to create and then press
Enter.
i.) If you created your second partition to use the entire size of the Extended
DOS Partition then go to Step 7.
J.) If not then repeat step h until you have used up the rest of the Extended
DOS Partition then go to Step 7.
7.) Press ESC, and then press ESC to quit the fdisk tool and return to a command
prompt.
8.) Reboot. You are now ready to format the partitions that you just created.
The next step which is how to format the partitions you just created.
