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From: yee@edison.seas.ucla.edu (John Yee/;093090;eegrad)
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Subject: Re: How to Partition a Hard Drive?
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Date: 7 Sep 90 08:03:07 GMT
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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