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David Teitelbaum <[log in to unmask]>
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PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 30 Mar 2001 10:09:09 +0700
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I don't see why you would need a third party partition maker.  This  is
easy to do with an O/S.

Tell us what OS your using and someone can tell you what to do exactly.

David



At 02:36 AM 3/30/01, you wrote:
>I have just assembled a new computer and want to install an OS. I have
>formatted and installed new OS before, so that is not a problem, but this
>time I want to install multiple partitions.
>
>I checked several partition managers, but they seemed more complex than I
>need, multi OS, up  to 200 partitions, etc. I will use one OS, and will
>not need more than four partitions.
>
>Will FDISK, Format commands take care of my needs, or do I need to know
>or use something else? Is there a limit on size of partitions using
>FDISK? I have some hard drive manufacturers software, such as DiskManager
>and DiscWizard. Better to use one of those?
>
>How do I know how large a partition to leave for OS?
>
>Demetri Kolokotronis
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