How to partition a hard disk

First, we need to understand some concepts about how to partition a hard disk. Take a look at the following Glossary:
Physical Disk: a real hard disk is called a "physical disk ". Logical Disk: the "C: disk" and "D: disk" Used After partitioning "............, It is generally referred to as a "Logical Disk ". A "physical disk" can be divided into a "Logical Disk" or several "logical disks". You can adjust it based on your needs.
Primary partition: The English "PrimaryPartition" is a type of "Logical Disk" that you can create on a "physical disk. For example, if you want your physical disk to have only one "C: disk", all the disk space will be allocated to the "primary partition. Extended partition: The English name of "extended partition" is "ExtendedPartition". If you want to divide the hard disk into two areas: "C:" and "D, you can create a primary partition (the primary partition is changed to a C: disk) with a portion of the space on the hard disk, and an extended partition with the remaining space. However, an extended partition is not a "usable" unit. You must create a logical disk in the extended partition before the operating system can access the content on it. For example, if you allocate all the space in the extended partition to a logical disk, the Logical Disk created using the extended partition will become D: disk.
Here, you must note that a logical disk is not necessarily allocated for an extended partition. You can also divide the expansion into several logical disks. If you allocate an extended partition to a logical disk, the Logical Disk is changed to D :. If you divide the extended partitions into several portions, they will become D:, E:, F :............. Pay special attention to the relationship between extended partitions and logical disks on them: Logical disks other than C: (D:, E:, F :............) It is included in the extended partition, which is often misunderstood by beginners.
Before partitioning a hard disk, you must have a boot disk. If you have A boot disc, you only need to set the BIOS to the disc to start. If you use A floppy disk to start, you only need to make A boot disk and set the BIOS to A: Start. Since your Win98 instance cannot be started properly (assuming), please first put the boot disk in A: Soft drive, or put the disc in the optical drive, then boot it!
Revolutionary work officially started
1. Change the BIOS to boot with a floppy disk.
Some friends may set it to "only use C: disk Boot" to reduce the startup time ". However, when you want to reinstall Win98, you have to re-adjust the BIOS options for boot because the C: disk may no longer be able to boot. Please press DEL or the corresponding buttons at boot to go to BIOS settings, and then adjust the disk sequence option to "A:, C:", or to "CDROMC:" When starting with a cd: A :". (The following uses A: Drive startup as an example .)
2. restart the computer.
After the BIOS is adjusted and the settings are saved, the BIOS immediately restarts the computer. Make sure that the boot floppy disk has been placed in A: Drive (preferably the WIN98 boot disk ). Select as prompted, and you will see a familiar screen, which is the old doscommand line prompt.
3. Execute FDISK
Enter "FDISK" after the prompt symbol and press enter to execute the hard disk partitioning tool. The so-called FDISK is the hard disk partition tool program used in the DOS era. Its full name is FixedDiskSetupprogram. The so-called "fixeddisk" is an old hard disk name. Although the general name of the hard disk is "harddisk", this program keeps its original name and remains unchanged.
4. Enter FDISK
After FDISK is executed, the program will ask you "Doyouwishtoenablelargedisksupport (Y/N )". If you want to delete a partition, don't worry about this problem. You can leave it alone when creating a partition. Press Y to continue executing FDISK.
5. view your hard disk partition status
At this time, there are four options on the screen. Please note that this is the main menu of FDISK. If you press Esc, FDISK execution can be completed. Before deleting a partition, you can view the status of the hard disk partition in advance. Enter the number key 4 on the keyboard and select "Displayinformation", which means to view the partition status of the existing hard disk. You can check whether your hard disk has only one primary partition, or whether there are extended partitions in addition to the primary partition. on the view screen, you can continue to view the status of the Logical Disk. To return to the master selection menu, Press ESC.
6. Delete A Logical Disk
If you want to reinstall Win98 and re-plan the hard disk space usage, You have to remove the original hard disk partitioning method. That is to say, you have to delete all the original hard disk partitions. If you are confident about the status of the hard disk partition, it will help the partitioning work. You do not think it is very easy to delete a hard disk partition. In fact, this is not the case. You have to delete the hard disk partition in reverse order by creating a hard disk partition. Therefore, you must first know the order in which hard disk partitions are created. The order in which hard disk partitions are created: Create a primary partition (C :) → create an extended partition → Create A Logical Disk (D:, E:, F:…) on the extended partition :......). Therefore, the order of deleting a hard disk partition is to delete the Logical Disk of the extended partition (D:, E:, F :,......) → Delete extended partition → Delete primary partition (C :). First, if your hard disk has extended partitions, select DeletePartitionorlogicalDOSDrive, and then select DeletelogicalDOSDrire (s) intheExtendedDOSPartition. If you do not have any logical disk, you will see the "NoLogicalDOSDrive (s) todelete." message. If you have defined a logical disk in the extended partition, such as:, D:, E :......, In this case, enter the logic code and the volume label name (Volumelabel) of the disk to delete them one by one. Why is the procedure so complicated? This is because when you delete a logical disk, all the information on it will also disappear. Therefore, the FDISK program must determine "you know what you are doing" before deleting the Logical Disk. Otherwise, anyone can execute the FDISK command, which will not destroy your hard disk. If you enter an incorrect name for the disk volume, FDISK does not allow you to delete the Logical Disk.
7. Delete extended partitions
After you delete D:, E :,...... After these logical disks, you have to go back to the main menu and delete the entire extended partition. Select "3. DeletepartitionorLogicalDOSDrive" again, and then select "1. DeleteprimaryDOSPartition ". After selection, FDISK will ask which primary partition you want to delete? Because there is only one primary partition, the default value is "1 ". After you press the key, enter the disk volume label and answer "Yes" to delete the primary partition. After the primary partition is deleted, all hard disk partitions have disappeared, and the entire hard disk is "clean. Please end the execution of FDISK and reboot it. Note: after changing the partition status of the hard disk, you must restart the boot disk. Otherwise, unexpected conditions may occur. A hard disk partition must be created after it is damaged. It cannot only be destroyed by light. Now, follow the instructions below to create a new partition for the hard disk. However, building is easier than destroying it!
Start home reconstruction
1. Execute FDISK
After the partition is deleted, restart the system. Now, you should follow the "A:" symbol. Enter "FDISK" and press enter to execute the hard disk partitioning tool.
2. Select whether to enable "FAT32" support.
If you use Win98/Win95OSR2 to create a boot disk, after you run the FDISK command, the program will ask you "Doyouwishtoenablelargedisksupport (Y \ N )"............? "N ". What should I do now? What is "Largedisksupport? Early DOS and Win95, a single Logical Disk was planned to have a limit of 2 GB (earlier DOS had a limit of 32 MB ). That is to say, no matter how you partition, the maximum capacity of a logical disk is 2 GB. If two logical disks exist, there are three logical disks in total (one primary partition and one extended partition contains two logical disks and three logical disks in total ). That's why there is only one "real hard disk" on some brand computers, but you can see "C:, D:, E:…" in your computer :......" Several drive letters. Later, Microsoft thought that "several logical disks" were inappropriate, so the format of Hard Disk Partitions was improved in Win98/Win95OSR2. You may have heard of the so-called "FAT32". After Win98/Win95OSR2 is supported by FAT32, you can finally make a hard disk with a capacity of more than 2 GB without dividing it into two or more logical disks, you can use only one primary partition. All in all, if you have Win98/Win95OSR2, we recommend that you select FAT32 for "Doyouwishtoenablelargedisksupport (y/n )?" If this problem occurs, you may select "Yes ". That is to say, if you choose to enable support for large disks, the hard disks larger than 2 GB can still be allocated to the primary partition (primarypartition ). If your Win95 is an old version, it is a pity that you can skip this step and continue to look down.
3. Create a hard disk primary Partition
In the FDISK main menu. Select "1. CreateDOSpartitionorLogicalDOSDrive", and then select "1. CreatePrimaryDOSpartition" to create the primary partition of the hard disk. But how should we plan the hard disk capacity? This depends on your preferences. Here, I only introduced the situation that hard disk partitions are only divided into one primary partition. If you want to create an extended partition, you only need to delete the partition in reverse order, you can create an extended partition of the hard disk.
How is it? Now you have a detailed understanding of the hard disk partition! Below I will introduce some undisclosed FDISK parameters to you. For reference, you can add them after Fdisk. We hope you can use them to better manage your hard disk.
STATUS
Parameter Function: displays the split status.
Parameter description: when there is no logical disk in the extended partition, the extended partition is not displayed.
/MBR
Parameter Function: rebuilding the master Activation Program (MasterBootRecord) of the first hard disk)
Parameter description: When an MBR virus is infected, it is quite easy to clear the virus.
/PRI
Parameter Function: Create a primary partition and set it to active.
Parameter description: The main partition created on the hard disk. The partition is set to activate the partition.
/PRIO
Parameter Function: Use FAT16 to create a primary partition and set it to active.
/EXT
Parameter Function: Create an extended split Area
Parameter description: Create an extended split area (used to create a Logical Disk) on the hard disk)
/LOG
Parameter Function: Create A Logical Disk
Detailed description of parameters: Logical Disk./LOG must be used together with/EXT
/LOGO
Parameter Function: Use FAT16 to create a Logical Disk
/FPRMT
Parameter Function: Ask FAT16/FAT32 in conversation mode
Parameter description: When the/FPRMT parameter is added, no query screen is displayed for the starting large-capacity hard disk support. Instead, you are asked to use FAT16 or FAT32 each time you create a new split.
/Q
Parameter Function: Do not reactivate the computer when FDISK ends.
Parameter description: using the/Q Parameter will not reactivate the computer after the table is changed.
/X
Parameter Function: Do not use the LBA attribute
Detailed description of parameters: using the/X parameter will not produce segmentation with the LBA attribute
/ACTOK
Parameter Function: do not check the hard disk goodness
Parameter description: You can use the/ACTOK parameter to speed up the splitting without checking the hard disk goodness.
/CMBR
Parameter Function: rebuild the master Activation Program of the specified hard disk
Parameter description: The action is the same as that of MBR, but the hard disk can be specified.