Partitioning - A procedure were the size of the harddisk is is being divided into several parts or space in preparation for formatting. Is a process of dividing the harddisk into regions called partition. Each partition occupies a group of adjacent cylinders. Partition allows you to organize a harddisk into segments or space in preparation for formatting.
FDISK - is the process of creating partitions into harddisk. Before you install your operating system, you must first create a primary partition on the hard disc (disc 1) in your computer, and then format the partition
Creating Partition Using FDISK for Windows ME and Windows 98
This process will need Windows ME/98 installation Disk or DOS bootable operating system diskette or CD. Once you run the bootable disk it will normally arrive to a:\> prompt. Normally when creating this kind of bootable disk it has the following tools needed. The fdisk.exe format.com. Once you are now on the command prompt just type in FDISK then it will now move on the process of creating partition. Just follow the steps below.
- Creating DOS partition or Logical DOS Drive - Choose this option if you need to create a partition on your computer hard drive.
- Set active partition - If you have created multiple partitions on your hard drive choose this option to specify which partition you wish to set as active. When choosing option 2 to set the active partition, you will see a listing of the current partitions. Choose the number representing the partition you wish to set as active, the default is one.
- Delete partition or Logical DOS Drive - This option is used if you need to delete partition(s) from the computer's hard disc drive.
- Display partition information - Use this option to look at the current fixed disc drive partition information. If you have multiple drives you will need to choose option 5 before being able to display the other hard drive information.
- Display partition information - Use this option to look at the current fixed disc drive partition information. If you have multiple drives you will need to choose option 5 before being able to display the other hard drive information.