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DOS Bootdisk with FDISK/FORMAT
Name: CPUJohn Date: February 26, 2004 at 15:22:01 Pacific OS: Any DOS CPU/Ram: Numerous
Comment:
I'm looking for a DOS boot disk with an included fdisk and format function that will support large (over 100GB) drives. Need to partition and format a large number of drives...
Name: Mick C Date: February 27, 2004 at 03:20:17 Pacific
Reply:
Or visit the PowerLoad Bootdisk Project (Link above)
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Response Number 3
Name: Dave357 Date: February 27, 2004 at 17:05:31 Pacific
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If you have a large number of 100-GB drives to partition & format, you'll be spending MANY hours formatting them using Microsoft's format program. You may want to consider using something like Symantec's Gdisk instead, which will allow you to partition and quick format all in one operation. It'll save hours of time.
HTH
Dave
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Response Number 4
Name: apoorvagala Date: February 28, 2004 at 07:08:29 Pacific
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Dave357 is right.
you can use part240 program too. http://come.to/ranish get part240.zip (?) version only. not part243 i find some problem with it.
In case you need to have bootable disks. Goto www.bootdisk.com There are almost all disks.:-)
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Response Number 5
Name: wizard-fred Date: February 29, 2004 at 07:30:04 Pacific
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If you have that many drives, may be you should consider a hardware drive cloning solution. These would partition, format, and copy software simultaneously to multiple drives at one time, copy speeds can exceed 2.4 GB/min. They are a bit pricy but they save a lot of time. These units vary from 1 to 16 drives at a time. If you are going to do this frequently it would be a good deal.
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