John,

There is no way to install the partition after the drive has been formatted.
The diagnostic partition has to be installed with a clean, fdisked,
non-partitioned drive.  In other words, when using Fdisk you must exit
before you create any partitions, run the diagnostic software off of the
disks to create the diagnostic partition, and then run Fdisk again to create
the regular partitions.  Using the disks when you need to make changes works
fine, it's just slow.

Hope this helps.

Kyle Elmblade
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From: "Capt. Zyla" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2000 3:49 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] compaq 9232 diagnostic partition


> I have a 5 year old Compaq that I am installing a larger hard drive  where
> the bios does not want to recognize the full size of the drive. I had to
> remove the diagnostic partition and use a disk manager to get the full
> capacity of the drive available.
>  Question, Is it posible to still create the diagnostic partition after
> using a disk manager? I know Compac says you must install the diagnostic
> partition first before anything is placed on the drive.
>
> I don't see any problems with leaving the diag. off the drive if I always
> have the floppies to boot up from for set up or diagnostic. Any opinions
> on this?
>
> John Zyla
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