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From: ariel@seer.UUCP (Catherine Hampton)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: Help :: Dos HD Partitions
Summary: Yes, it is possible under 4.01
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Date: 17 Oct 90 00:50:53 GMT
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In article <7023.27199600@vax1.tcd.ie> jagrogan@vax1.tcd.ie writes:
>Can anyone out there tell me if it's possible (under Dos 3.3 or 4.01)
>to format an 80Meg Hard Disk without having to partition it?

Yes, at least as I think you mean it.  DOS actually uses the term partition
in a way that formatting it as a single C: drive is also called partitioning.
But you mean that you want to format your 80 meg hard disk as one 80 meg
C: drive, rather than two or three virtual disks, right?

If that's what you meant, just get DOS 4.01, run FDISK, and select the
whole drive as a single large partition.  Then format it.  It's that
simple.

(Good news is fun!;> )

Cathy
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