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From: andyross@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Andrew Rossmann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Hard disk partitioning
Message-ID: <[4161.2]comp.ibmpc;1@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
Date: 9 Jul 89 16:00:05 GMT
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>Item: 4161 by hobbes at portia.Stanford.EDU (1 responses)
>Author: [Andrew Zimmerman]
>  Subj: Hard disk partitioning
>
>Is it possible to create a DOS partition with 16-bit FAT entries as
>an extendeded DOS partition?
>I am using DOS 3.3plus on a Zenith supersport-286 with a 40 Meg hard
>disk.  The first partition is a DOS-16, with 33 Meg.  When I try to
>create the second partition, the DOS command PREP creates a partition of
>type DOS-12 for an 8 Meg partition.  Is there anyway to change this
>partion to a DOS-16?  

  The only way I can think of to over-ride this is to use somthing like
Nortons Utilities (Advanced Edition 4.5 is the easiest) and edit the
partition table to change the type from FAT-12 to FAT-16. You need to
change the type byte from 01 to 04. You will then need to re-format the
partition.

>Thanks for any help.
>Andrew Zimmerman
>zimmer@umunhum.stanford.edu

  Andrew Rossmann
  andyross@ddsw1.MCS.COM