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From: ESR@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU (Ed Russell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Partitioning hard disks
Message-ID: <90311.083023ESR@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: 7 Nov 90 16:30:23 GMT
References: <5948@munnari.oz.au>
Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
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>From: emmang@ecr.mu.oz.au (Totally Lost)
>Subject: Partitioning hard disks
>Date: 7 Nov 90 00:40:45 GMT
>
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>I am having a problem partitioning my hard disk.
>I can make the partition, but I cannot tell the computer to boot
>off the partition.
>
>The computer can boot off the disk if I have no partition, but as
>soon as I partition it, and copy the system onto it(MSDos) the computer
>locks up.

Did you re-FORMAT (high-level not low-level) the partitions?
You didn't say how you are partitioning.  FDISK? Disk Manager? other?