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[Ron Clarke <ariadne AT acepia.net.au>]

Hi Folks,

On Mon, 5 Jan 2004 09:01:41 +1300
3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:


> After creating the first (primary) partition in DOS (and
> leaving the rest of the HD unpartitioned), you can boot 
> BL2 (ramdisk) and create three more primary partitions 
> (with DOS IDs).  Then, when you return to DOS, you (hopefully) 
> will be able to;
> ---------
> format D:
> format E:
> format F:
> ---------
> 
> * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
> *                                                             *
> *  If anybody has an old HD with nothing important on it, I   *
> *  would be grateful for some feedback on this.  Is DOS able  * 
> *  to format extra primary partitions as described above?     *
> *                                                             *
> * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

    Yes.  That is pretty much what I did with my new 40 GB HD, except that I 
used
BL (RAM) to make every primary partition. Then formatted the three primary 
DOS partitions with DOS, and also had to run Nortons Disk Doctor fix up after 
MS-DOS
because the partition tables were left in a bit of a mess and didn't show the 
full 2GB size of each.

Regards,
         Ron


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