Summary: Mechanix2go said "I partitoned an 80GBG into 3GB and 'the rest'. Fdisk showed only 20GB total but had actually created the ~76GB part. Go figure." Int...
Summary: Here's something from the annals of personal experience: Pure DOS cannot recognize a Fat32 partition as one of the standard DOS filesystems. That came...
Summary: An older computer of mine, a pentium II 350 system with a 4318 mb harddrive working under DOS 6.2 has to be setup in a network to conect my printers w...
Summary: Using Win95b fdisk (7.1), I want to create a primary Fat32 partition in or around 380MB to keep the clusters' size to a sane number (4K). How can this...
Summary: It's very probably that you just format a FAT32 partition, if yoy're trying to install W95a (OSR1) boot with DOS or a W95a boot disk, use fdisk to del...
Summary: I think DOS 6.0 was limited to 0.5GB and DOS6.22 to 2GB partitions. If your BIOS detects the full capacity of the drive then you should be able to fi...
Summary: how big a partition do i need just for windows98se. you see i want to make a partition for window98es files & folders, and another one for downloads a...
Summary: Hello! I'm trying find a way to format hard drives into NTFS format from DOS (booted into dos with Windows 98 boot disk). Yes, I'm aware that NTFS for...
Summary: Hi, 1. There is no way to use DOS 6.22 with FAT32. 2. Your next suggestion is more realistic. If you format your 1st partition - C: drive - to FAT16 y...
Summary: Hello there, I have a HDD that is formatted in FAT32 format and I have Win98se. I have the need for DOS to be installed and I would like to know if it...
Summary: I have a new 40gb HD that i formatted in the NTFS file system, it said i needed to create a MS-dos partiton, there was an error loading the operating ...
Summary: What are you guys talking about? The win98 boot disk is one of the most versitile newbie prep tools going. You don't need a "special magic win95 only ...
Summary: You have to have format.com in the path. When you boot with a floppy, often you cannot FORMAT C: from C: but have to change to A: or enter A:\fo...
Summary: You say you do not have an installation CD-ROM. Too bad. That would be the easiest way to go. But here is what I would do. From what I read in your...
Summary: Take a look at the "how to's" section on the left of the screen. In the advanced "how to's" you will see information on formatting a HD. In it you wil...
Summary: Dve, I'm not sure what the problem is. Just use FDISK to create the partitions you need. (By the way, there are other partitioning tools available, ...
Summary: Sounds as if your problem is one of the following: A.) You have a formatted partition, but it isn't a FAT32 partition and you need a FAT32 partition...
Summary: hpfs or ntfs or partition formats for hard drives. DOS and Windows will only use FAT16 or FAT32 partitions. A partition is an area created on a hard ...
Summary: If you used a win98 boot disk you can fdisk the hdd as one fat32 partition and format it. The disk will auto detect your cd drive and then you should...
Summary: Hi all, I am using part_cmd.exe for creating and formatting fat32 partition.I am using the drfat driver for accessing the fat32 partition.part_...
Summary: Big Shot, It's funny that you ask this as I did the very thing you spoke of last night. I think both Windows 95 and DOS 6.22 require they be the pri...
Summary: People who are tellling you that you don't need low level format are wrong. Personally, I have to use it all the time. Especially when I have an NTF...
Summary: I have a 2 hdd configuration with a 3.4 Gb Fujutsi(master,3 parti.) and a 20Gb IMB Deskstar (slave, 5 parti.), mainboard MSI6119, last BIOS. Problem: ...
Summary: I now have two partitions and one non-partition (or something). I want to format all three of them together with Fdisk or whatever, and then reinstall...
Summary: There is no version of FDISK or FORMAT for DOS that ISN'T a "DOS version", so that can't be the problem. FDISK, even the old versions, will recognize...
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