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| Thread ID: 38179 | 2003-09-29 22:26:00 | How do you create 2 Primary partitions? | Jase1 (459) | Press F1 |
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| 179137 | 2003-09-30 03:33:00 | Make your backup drive a FAT32 partition in the extended partition area (Logical drive). Try booting from the CD rather than off a floppy. If you do boot from a floppy, then it will be a drive above what it is in doze, so if it's normally D: then when booting from a floppy, it'll be E: Make the Backup partition once you've installed WinXP. Cheers Chill. |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 179138 | 2003-09-30 05:57:00 | Contrary to common guesswork, it is possible to create up to 4 primary partitions on a single physical hard drive . In simplistic terms, an extended partition is a specialised primary partition . Extended partitions are non bootable as are logical drives . DOS based Microsoft operating systems have limitations recognising more than one primary partition when more than one primary partition exists on a single hard drive . NT based Microsoft operating systems do not have that limitation . After partition formatting, DOS based Microsoft operating systems have limitations recognising non FAT file structures . Microsoft Fdisk is a DOS based application . To create more than one primary partition use either a non Microsoft application or use Disk Manager in an installed NT based Microsoft operating system . Men are four: He who knows not and knows not he knows not, he is a fool -- shun him; He who knows not and knows he knows not, he is simple -- teach him; He who knows and knows not he knows, he is asleep -- wake him; He who knows and knows he knows, he is wise -- follow him! - Lady Burton (wife of Sir Richard Francis Burton), given as an Arabian proverb |
Merlin (503) | ||
| 179139 | 2003-09-30 06:17:00 | Or... 3 primary partitions and an extended partition which may contain 'unlimited' logical partitions. Software like Partition Magic will do this for you, and a boot manager like BootMagic can be used to select which partition to boot from, the others are then hidden. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 179140 | 2003-09-30 06:23:00 | And there are other OSs which can boot from extended partitions. You've always been able to make four primaries, it's just that only one can be "active" at any time in the DOS wqrld. | Graham L (2) | ||
| 179141 | 2003-09-30 06:46:00 | > You can put XP ANYwhere.. even on a secondary HDD.. Its 98 I'd be more concerned about, and put that on the primary... Actually you can't. It has to be on the first partition of a disk - thats what MS recommend and if you do it another way it probably won't work. Also for linux to work with XP on the same disk you have to do that as well. I also tried relocating the XP partition further down the disk, so I could put a swap file on the first part of the drive, but that just killed everything, and a repair wouldn't even fix. If you have XP on your 3rd partition or something and it runs, I'd like to see it in action :) |
PoWa (203) | ||
| 179142 | 2003-09-30 11:46:00 | Powa> Come on over then.. I've said before, I've run: Win98SE, Win2K Pro, and WinXP Pro all off one HDD.. and I didnt use Partition Magic to create 4x Primary partitions like Merlin has mentioned (I still dont see why he doesnt get a proper sig). He's right about the partitioning schematics though. I installed Win98 first, then Win2K, and then WinXP :-) And if you've got a good Boot Manager, you only need one partition to be active :-) |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 179143 | 2003-09-30 12:03:00 | > I've run: Win98SE, Win2K Pro, and WinXP Pro all off one HDD Ok but where is winxp located on the disk? start or end? > (I still dont see why he doesnt get a proper sig). LOL. Yer it is rather lame. |
PoWa (203) | ||
| 179144 | 2003-09-30 12:09:00 | There were 3x 3GB partitions and 1x 1.2GB partition on a 10.2 GB disk. It went: Primary partition: 98 then in the first Logical: Win2K Pro Seecond logical: WinXP Pro 3rd Logical: FAT32 misc files drive All were FAT32 partitions :-) |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 179145 | 2003-09-30 15:56:00 | Mmmm good stuff. :) If it worked for you, excellent. Although I woulda though putting the better OS (XP) on the first partition would be for optimal performance. Although if hes gonna be using '98 a lot for games etc then put that as first. Goodness we are getting pedantic now, I think I'll shutup ;) :) | PoWa (203) | ||
| 179146 | 2003-10-02 02:01:00 | Hey ^^ Umm . . . I think I may have a problem . I've manage to setup (not yet created) a partition for XP during the XP setup . But I can't seem to get it to format into FAT32 . It only allows me to format it to NTFS . . . :( . The size of HDD that I've set for Xp is 50GB . I've also created another partition (the backup drive), and this one can let me choose if I want to format it into FAT32 or NTFS . The partition that I've set for the backup drive is 5GB . Any ideas on how I can conver it into FAT32? Is it because the size of the HDD is over 40GB that it has to format it into NTFS? Thanks Jase Sen |
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