FDISK is a lower-level disk operation than format.  It allows you to
partition a large physical drive into several smaller logical drives,
i.e. divide the C: drive into  C:, D:, and E:.  This was more important
under DOS than it is now under the latest versions of Windows.

It also allows you to set a drive as Active or not, if you have more
than one physical drive.

If you were able to format your drive successfully and it runs fine,
then there was no need to perform an FDISK, and it is possible
that you will never have to perform an FDISK.

Dean Kukral  [log in to unmask]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jagpal S.Tiwana" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 5:03 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] fdisk


> I often read that when you format your hard drive you also do a fdisk.
> I did format my HD on different computers several times and installed
> win98SE which ran smoothly without the fdisk.
> What is fdisk ? what does it do ? What can happen to my  computer as I did
> not do the fdisk
> I hv a P1.1 GB processor, 256 MB Ram, running Win98SE and have 2 HDs, one
> C> is 6GB and the2nd D > is 24GB
> Plz advise
>
> Jagpal S Tiwana
> http://home.istar.ca/~cye/mss.html
>

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