Brendon is right on, as far as he went. Fdisk & format will work fine for
what you want/need, except of course, that 24 drive letters aren't
available as you have to save a couple for CD-ROM(s), Zip, burner, etc.

Size of partition for OS? Depends on what your going to load, if you put
the swap file on that drive, size of OS, whether you want to put
utilities there, whether you want all your apps on that drive and data on
another. Eg, we have a c: drive ["DOS bootable partition"] of 2.5G. With
WinME, using a fixed-size swap file of 320mb, the c: drive quickly soaked
up 1.4G of files. Earlier Win versions use less amounts of HDD space, and
lighter loads of WinME would use less too, but we use full, custom
install.

Jack
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On Fri, 30 Mar 2001 23:36:11 +0200 Brendon Schafer
<[log in to unmask]> writes:
> That's a lot of questions.
> FDISK should take care of your worrys. I believe the maximum number
> of
> partitions is 24. (There being 26 letters in the alphabet and A and
> B being
> used for Floppy drives).
> There may be a limit on size of partitions, depending on the system
> you
> built and your OS. I doubt though that this will have  an influence
> given
> todays hardware. I think the only concern would be the OS you are
> installing
> and the type of partition you want to create.
> In terms of using hard drive manufacturers software - it wont harm
> you. I
> use Western Digital's software all the time. Bear in mind though
> that this
> software is usually specfic for a manufacturers drive.
> Size of partition for OS? Can't answer that one. I don't really have
> a
> preference, which is what I guess it boils down to. I know some
> prefer to
> have one partition for the OS, another for apps, another for files,
> another
> for.....whatever.
> Good luck
> Brendon
>
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Original email:

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?

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