FDISK OPTIONS
Current fixed disk drive: 1
Choose one of the following options
1. Create DOS partition or logical DOS drive.
2. Set active partition.
3. Delete partition or logical DOS drive.
4. Display partition information.
Item 4 displays the information about drives that deleted or parted to see the information choose the option.” Display partition information”
Press enter key.
Do you want to display the logical drive information (Y\N)……….?
Press [Y]
Press enter key to display the information.
To return to fdisk options press ESC key.
Item 3 deletes partitions and logical dos drives select the “Delete partition or logical DOS drives”
Press enter key.
Again it will apply [4]options and select one of the following options.
1) Delete primary DOS partition.
2) Delete extended DOS partition.
3) Delete logical DOS drive(s) in the extended DOS partition.
4) Delete Non-Dos partition.
You first delete logical DOS partition then extended DOS partition and then delete primary DOS partition.
If we have logical DOS drives partition in the extended drives then select the option [3]if you have only two drives as C,D then select the option [2]or if you have only one partition for example C then select the option [1].
To delete Non-DOS partition selects the option “Delete Non-DOS partition”
Press enter key.
What Non-DOS partition do you want to delete……..?[2]
Press enter key.
Press ESC to return to FDISK options.
And then select the options 3.
Press enter key.
What drive do you want delete. And select one of the option from the letters for example D, E, F,
Drv volume label mbytes system usage
D: 9549 FAT32 33%
select the option [D]
Press enter key.
Enter volume label if it has other wise press enter key.
Total extended DOS partition size is 28624 Mbytes (1 Mbyte =1048576 bytes)
Are you sure ………(Y\N)?
[Y]…….press enter key.
Then the drive will be deleted.
Press ESC key.
Drv volume label mbytes system usage
E: 9539 FAT32 30%
select the option [E]
Press enter key.
Enter volume label if it has other wise press enter key.
Total extended DOS partition size is 28624 Mbytes (1 Mbyte =1048576 bytes)
Are you sure ………(Y\N)?
[Y]…….press enter key.
Then the drive will be deleted.
Press ESC key.
Drv volume label mbytes system usage
F: FAT32 25%
select the option [F]
Press enter key.
Enter volume label if it has other wise press enter key.
Total extended DOS partition size is 28624 Mbytes (1 Mbyte =1048576 bytes)
Are you sure ………(Y\N)?
[Y]…….press enter key.
Then the drive will be deleted. Now the extended DOS partition has been completely deleted.
Press ESC key to return to FDISK options.
Now to delete primary DOS partition select the option 3 and press enter key.
“Delete partition or logical DOS drives”
Select the option 1 to delete primary DOS partition.
“Delete primary DOS partition”
Press enter key.
Drv volume label mbytes system usage
C: FAT32 40%
Do you want to delete primary DOS partition…….. [1]
Press enter key.
Enter volume label if it has other wise press enter key.
Are you sure ………(Y\N)?
[Y]…….press enter key.
Now the primary DOS partition will be deleted.
Press ESC key.]
So this was the way of deletion of hard disk partition in primary or in logical drives.
To see the active partitions in primary or in logical drives go to FDISK options and select the option [2]
“Set active partition”
Press enter key.
Press ESC key to return to FDISK options.
Now we are going to create DOS partition or logical DOS drives.
And it will give us three options as you see in following options in following lines.
Select the option 1 for creating DOS partition or logical DOS drives.
“create DOS partition or logical DOS drives”
press enter key for creating DOS partition or logical DOS drives.
1. Create primary DOS partition.
2. Create extended DOS partition.
3. Create logical DOS drives in the extended DOS partition.
So first we must select the option 1 to create primary DOS partition.
“Create primary DOS partition”
Press enter key.
Now it checks the errors in hard disk and it creates the partitions active.
Again it will give massage that
Do you wish to use the maximum available size for a primary DOS partition and makes the partition active (Y\N)…..?
[N]……Press enter key to create the partition in our choice.
The partition is completing after verifying.
And give partition to hard disk in percentage to drive C for example 33%.
Now the primary DOS partition is created.
Press ESC key to return to FDISK options.
Select the option 2 to create extended DOS partition and we will give percentage to the drive D,E,F.
“Create extended DOS partition”
press enter key to verify the drives.
Type the drive [D]
Press enter key.
The drive is verifying in percentage.
Apply partitions to the drives in percentage or in number.
Select the option 3to create extended DOS partition and we will give percentage to the drive D,E,F.
“Create logical DOS drives in the extended DOS partition”
press enter key to verify the drives.
Type the drive [E
Press enter key.
The drive is verifying in percentage.
Apply partitions to the drives in percentage or in number.
Select the option 3to create extended DOS partition and we will give percentage to the drive D, E, F.
“Create logical DOS drives in the extended DOS partition”
Press enter key to verify the drives.
Type the drive [F]
Press enter key.
The drive is verifying in percentage.
Apply partitions to the drives in percentage or in number.
Now the logical DOS drives in the extended DOS partition have been created.
Press ESC to return to FDISK options.
Press ESC to exit FDISK.
The drives have been successfully created now we must restart the computer before applying formats to drives.
After restarting the computer so you must select the option “boot from CD rom”
And then press enter
Select the option 2 to apply formats to drives.
The two way of applying formats to drives.
1:We can also apply format to drives from “start computer with CD rom support”
Press enter key.
Write the drives you want to format for example C,D,E, and F.
Format C:
Press enter key.
2:
? Start windows 98 setup from CD rom support.
Press enter key to start setup of drives.
Drive C 50% is formatting.
Press enter key.
Drive D 50% is formatting.
Press enter key.
Drive E 50% is formatting.
Press enter key.
Drive F 50% is formatting.
Press enter key.
After completing formatting of drives the setup checks the errors in drives other wise if there is no any errors and then press enter to exit blue screen.
Press enter key to start windows98 setup and write descriptions of user.