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From: stephenc@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Stephen Chung)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Creating another partition
Message-ID: <1990Oct11.144632.6332@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
Date: 11 Oct 90 14:46:32 GMT
Sender: stephenc@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Stephen Chung)
Organization: Columbia University
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Hi NetLanders,

I am currently running DOS 4.01 on an 80M IDE drive.  I want to create
a separate partition (maybe 10M or so) so that DOS 3.3 can recognize
it when I boot it up from a floppy.  The problem: I don't want to
backup my hard disk (I have about 40M of stuff and no tape backup unit).
Somebody suggests to me that I:

	1. Defragmentize the hard drive, push all files to the front
	2. Use fdisk to create a partition at the end or
	   Modify the partition table using a sector editor

I am a little skeptical about this because the manual says that using
fdisk will trash all data on the hard disk.  Does anyone know whether
it is save to do that?

Thanks a lot.  Reply to this account is appreciated.

- Stephen