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From: martell@ucs.ubc.ca (Jonn Martell)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Re: Disk Manager and MSDOS 5.0
Message-ID: <1991Jun19.171414.24136@unixg.ubc.ca>
Date: 19 Jun 91 17:14:14 GMT
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In article <1991Jun18.091756.31516@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> 1h1a0m@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
>
>Thanks to all the folks that gave suggestions about disk manager and dos 5.
>It turned out that disk manager is not needed any longer.  The steps I took
>follow:

True, disk manager is not needed (and should not be used to partition
hard drives for DOS 5 and for Windows 3.0)

>
>- make dos 5 bootable diskettes
>- boot with dos 5 in drive A:
>- low level format HD with debug (controller has rom in it to do that)
>- fdisk with dos 5
>- format with dos 5
>
You did not need to low level format you hard drive and would recommend against
doing it unless you know what you are doing.   You can skip step 3 above and use
Fdisk (DOS 5) to delete the non-DOS partition created by disk manager.