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From: browns@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com (Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: How to Partition a Hard Drive?
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Date: 7 Sep 90 13:29:53 GMT
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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.
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Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A.         (216) 371-0043
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