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From: sonny@charybdis.harris-atd.com (Bob Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: FDISK
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Date: 29 Mar 91 15:59:58 GMT
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In article <15744@mendip.UUCP> mhr@mendip.UUCP (MHR {who?}) writes:

>
>Fdisk is for organizing your hard drive _once_, not several times.  If
>you want to reorganize, fine, but back up everything first or else be
>prepared to say "Bye bye" to all of it.
>
>Really, people, it wasn't by accident that utilities like FDISK are hard
>to use.  Do some advance thinking and planning the FIRST time you run it
>and you won't have to do it ever again (on that disk).
>


	But doesn't someone with one partition devoted to DOS and another
to some other operating system need to use FDISK to switch the active
partition from one operating system to the other? So FDISK might need
to be run many times on the same disk?

	Why is FDISK hard to use? In my experience, it is just like
any other external DOS command. Such as FORMAT.


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