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second primary partition with fdisk
Name: Rohin Date: December 18, 2003 at 01:54:34 Pacific OS: Windows XP CPU/Ram: P4 3.06Ghz 512 MB DDR RAM
Comment:
I am currently using Windows XP on a 200GB hard drive. I want to install windows 98 on another partition. I want to create a second primary partition using fdisk, but fdisk won't let me.
Name: wizard-fred Date: December 18, 2003 at 04:05:52 Pacific
Reply:
You will have to use a third-party disk partitioner such as Partition Magic.
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Response Number 2
Name: trvlr Date: December 18, 2003 at 05:38:32 Pacific
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If you have XP installed, and free/unconfigured space then XP will/may allow it (via Disk Adminb tools?)... Otherwise you need either PM or SC, or a similar util.
However... be careful how far (physically) into the drive you place this second ('98 intended) Primary partition. '98 will not boot if the Primary partition in which it (or at least its) boot/start-up files reside is more than 8Gig (physically) into the drive.
Post back with where you intend to place the Primary? It can be positioned ahead of the current XP Primary... and the dual-boot aspect can be achieved without recourse to an add-in boot-manager util.
This whole issue was posted/discussed a little while back; and I have the links somewhere..
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Response Number 3
Name: melee5 Date: December 18, 2003 at 09:04:19 Pacific
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I'm thinking Aefdisk will let you do what you want and it's free.
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