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From: wdw@aucs.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Problems Creating DOS partition
Message-ID: <293@aucs.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 1-Mar-87 11:27:10 EST
Article-I.D.: aucs.293
Posted: Sun Mar  1 11:27:10 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 2-Mar-87 04:36:40 EST
Reply-To: wdw@aucs.UUCP (Bill Wilder)
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Organization: School of Computer Science, Acadia Univ., Nova Scotia
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I have an IBM AT with a PRIAM V-185 hard disk installed (drive type
12). I had been using a DOS 3.2 parition in the first 32 mega-bytes
(cylinders 0-549). In order to install Advanced Netware 286 on the
disk I wished to reduce and move the DOS partition to cylinders (550-853).

After I created the Netware parition in cylinders 0-549 I found that
DOS FDISK would not allow me to create a DOS partition beginning at
cylinder 550.  FDISK failed with the error message "no space for
partition". I understand that bare PC-DOS cannot create a partition
larger than 32 MB but I was surprised to see that FDISK would not allow
me to create a smaller partition (11 MB) starting just beyond the 32 MB
limit.

Have I forgotten something?

If possible, please reply by mail as our news feed is somewhat intermittent
these days.

Thank-you.
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