vxg@panda.UUCP (Vincent Gonzalez) (12/12/85)
I need some help from you experts out in netland. I have just purchased
a 20Meg fixed disk for my IBM PC. The installation was simple and I have
had no problems.
I would like to partition the disk in atleast three parts and each part
would be a DOS partition and would be access as a separate disk drive.
For example drive C: would be the first partition, drive D: the second, and
drive E: the last partition. Secondly, I would like to change the cluster
size from 4K to 2K.
My problem is that I am using PC-DOS 3.1 and I can not find a way of
convincing DOS that I have more than one hard disk. In other words the
FDISK option 5 is not available to me.
I do know that this is possible when using MS-DOS 2.X, because it comes
with a utility that allows you to partition your disk and the ASSIGN
command allows you to assign a drive letter to a disk partition (PC-DOS
version doesnot). I can use the partition utility with 3.1, however, the
MS-DOS ASSIGN is incompatible with PC-DOS 3.1 and the 3.1 ASSIGN is limited
in it use.
As to my need to change cluster size from 4K to 2K, my problem is
simply that of needing a clear procedure.
My system configuration is:
IBM-PC
(1) Floppy drive
(1) 20Meg Hard disk (Seagate ST225)
with disk SMS/OMTI controller
Mother board with 256K
AST 6-Pack with 384K
I would like to recieve mail on any constructive help you can give.
I will post to the net a summary if there is any interest.
Thanks, Vincent Gonzalez
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