can i get some info about "fdisk" & how to format , creat partitions???? pl help!!!

1)boot with your boot floppy to a promt 2)type fdisk 3)if win98 use large disk format if win 95 answer no to large disk format. 4)create primary dos partition:if win 95 max is two gig if win98 can be as big as you want in win95 with bigger then 2 gig hd create extended dos partition and then logical partition. 5)set primary as active 6)reboot choose w/cd support 7)at a prompt type format c: then if you made logical partion you need to do format d: 8)you can now load os good luck

I believe this persons question was not "how" to use fdisk and format but he/she wanted info on what they do. fdisk; is a tool in DOS that allows the user(you)to do a few things. you can creat a DOS partition or a logical DOS drive( this is a sub-division of your hard drive), you can set an active partition(this means which DOS partition runs the rest of the computer..ie your main operating system will reside in). You can delete partitions or logical dos drves, you can view your current information about you hard drive too. if you have more than one hard drive in your computer f-disk will allow you to bounce between them. format is also a tool within DOS that allows the user(again you) to completely wipe(remove all data) the hard drive partitions are pieces of the total amount of disk space you have on your hard drive. for an example you have a hard drive thats 2 gig and your bios on the motherboard wont support a drive that size then you'ld have to creat 4-5 partitions of 500meg each to be able to use a hard drive this size(you'ld also probably have to use a disk manager program too but that's another story ;>)) (creating partitions are easy. use f-disk tell DOS how big you want the partition to be and that's it.) you must know a little about computers because you've posted here so if all you've wanted was info on "how" to perform these tasks then i suggest you follow "comps" directions. they are correct and will do what you want. if it's info you seek then use your search engine and type in what you're looking for and then the rest is up to you. good luck but a suggestion first. back up all info you can before you re-format and make sure this is what you want to do. all info currently stored in hard drive will be gone when format is used

You can probably pick the right number in FDISK if you keep firmly in mind what you want to do. 1. You want to create a primary DOS partition. 2. You want to make it active. 3. You want to put all the drive space you did not use in the primary partition in an extended partition. 4. You want to create logical drives in the extended partition. Think of your drive as a sheet of paper for example. You draw these lines across it. The top line is drive C:. The next section is drive D: and so on. One drive, one piece of paper but many sections on the paper or logical drives on the hard drive. The drives differ from one another because only a primary drive that has been made active can hold a bootable operating system. The logical drives are the same otherwise. (In fact the formal terminology may be that the active drive is not a logical drive at all but a sepaarate category. That's what you want to do then draw some lines on your drive to make it into sections. You should have an idea what size for each drive is convenient for you. One tip: A drive you will use to store data to make a CD from has to be more than 650 Mbytes. It is more like 765. There are several reasons, the main one is that clusters add buffering that take up space on the drive at the 512-1052 Megabyte rate. One last thing. Unless you want to use fat32 which cannot be seen from a boot with DOS, don't make any logical drive larger than 2 Gbytes. Think of fdisking as good practice.