izslc19@discg1.UUCP (james cook) (09/05/90)
I want partition my hard disk so I can have a additional logical drive. Currently I have 7,892,992 bytes available on my C: drive. I would like to have a logical drive D: with 2-3M. I tried to use the DOS command PART (Adding a MS-DOS hard disk partition) (Add an extended or logical MS-DOS partition) but I get a message that no space is available. I'm running under MS-DOS 3.3. I am a novice with MS-DOS so any hints/help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. Jim Cook izslc19@discg1.UUCP Phila., PA (215) 697-0607 AV 442-0607 -- Jim Cook izslc19@discg1.UUCP (215)697-3405 AV 442-3405 Philadelphia, PA
yee@edison.seas.ucla.edu (John Yee/;093090;eegrad) (09/07/90)
I am no great wizard, but it looks to me like you are attempting something dangerous. Before proceeding, you should back up your hard disk completely and then use fdisk (from a floppy) to make an active partition and an extended partition, within which more logical drives can be assigned. You will have to approx. or look up the data to find out how many cylinders/meg your disk is, but I think that is a minor point. The thing I think you should avoid doing is changing the partition data on the disk while valuable data is on it. While this may still be folklore, I think it wise to do this stuff only after your hard disk is warmed up. Hope this helps, jy, yee@ee.ucla.edu
browns@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com (Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems) (09/07/90)
In article <4342@discg1.UUCP>, izslc19@discg1.UUCP (james cook) writes: > I want partition my hard disk so I can have a additional logical drive. > Currently I have 7,892,992 bytes available on my C: drive. I would > like to have a logical drive D: with 2-3M. You can't partition a drive that has any files on it--not without losing the files. So your procedure would be: 1. Perform a full backup from C:. If you're nervous, perform a second full backup. (Be sure to use a program that backs up by files rather than by sectors, because the sector addresses will be different at the end of this procedure.) 2. Put your original DOS disk in A: and boot. 3. Run the FDISK program. (I can't remember if it's on the main DOS disk or the supplemental programs.) Follow the instructions to partition your drive. 4. FORMAT C: /S 5. FORMAT D: 6. Restore your files to C. -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A. (216) 371-0043 The opinions expressed are mine. Mine alone! Nobody else is responsible for them or even endorses them--except my cat Dexter, and he signed the power of attorney only under my threat to cut off his Cat Chow!