You might have better luck than I, but I've never found PM user-friendly enough to suit me.  The dead simple way to construct partitions is via fdisk, when you first start to set up the hard drive.

If you're still floundering here, and want to do it this way, mail me direct and I'll fill in some more of the blanks.


Ian Porter
Computer Guys
Arrowtown
New Zealand
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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: ---Meanshoes--- 
  To: [log in to unmask] 
  Sent: Sunday, March 03, 2002 6:39 AM
  Subject: [PCBUILD] Drive Partitions


  This may be a very stupid question but I just have to ask....... I am going to be building a new system and was sitting thinking about all the things I'll need to do when all of the sudden it dawned on me I have never partitioned a drive. I have always just run the drive like it is (one big drive) this time I would like to break it into a few as my new drive will be a 60 gig drive. my intention is to run two different OS's  winXP and 98 from two different drives. ok here is the deal I have a copy of Partition Magic ver 7. but I am wondering now, do I have to Partition the drive before I load the OS and if so am I to assume that Partition Magic runs in DOS mode.....?? also how does this affect the setup when it recognizes the drive at startup.....does it still recognize it as c: drive........?
  ---Brock A. Hughes---

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