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From: spierk@turing.cs.rpi.edu (Kevin Spier)
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Subject: Partitioning Two Hard Disks...
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Date: 18 Jun 89 15:44:19 GMT
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I have an Epson Equity III+ (AT compatible) and currently have a
single Miniscribe 40MB hard drive in it with a controller that can
support two. I would like to purchase an identical drive to get my
system to 80MB. The problem comes in doing the partitioning under
MS-DOS 3.3.  From what I have seen, FDISK will force me to have 4
partitions since it doesn't allow partitions > 32MB nor ones that span
multiple drives.  What I would like is 3 partions, 1 10MB (bootable),
1 30MB, and 1 40 MB.  I've heard of software that creates some type of
device driver to handle this. What I'd like is something where I don't
have to have any in-depth knowledge of disks, controllers, formatting,
etc.  In other words a simple menu driven system that makes it easy to
set it up and if I want to change it later. Please mail me any
suggestions on software to accomplish this.  Thanks a lot. I will post
a summary if there is any interest.

Kevin L. Spier
spierk@turing.cs.rpi.edu
Kevin Spier
spierk@csv.rpi.edu