Using Fdisk to do the hard disk partition graphic Tutorial _ Application Skills

Hard Disk partitions

The most common tool for partitioning a hard disk is fdisk. It exists in the Windows 98 Startup disk or in the Windows\Command directory of the system disk.

The following is a detailed description of the steps for hard disk partitioning with Fdisk.

Before you partition your hard disk with Fdisk, you also need to set the boot order of the BIOS.

Start the computer, press the "Del" key to enter the BIOS settings, select the "Advanced BIOS Features" (Advanced BIOS feature Settings) menu item in the General menu, and change the "First boot Device" (one boot Device) to " CD-ROM (disc boot) or "floppy" (Floppy boot), and then press the "F10" key to save and exit the BIOS settings.

Prompts (e) When you start the system with the Windows 98 boot disk.

The first item in the tip indicates that the computer starts and uses the optical drive

The second item starts the computer but does not use the optical drive

The third item is the browse Help file.

After the system boots, enter the FDISK command directly at the DOS prompt, and then press ENTER to display the prompt interface as shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1

The approximate meaning of the hint in Figure 1 is that the disk capacity has exceeded 512MB, and it is recommended that you use the FAT32 file system format for disk partitioning in order to maximize disk performance. Pressing the "Y" key and pressing the "enter" key will go to the main operating interface of the FDISK command, as shown in Figure 2.

Figure 2 The main operation interface of the FDISK command

The meanings of the items in Figure 2 are as follows:

⑴ Create DOS partitions or logical drives

⑵ set up active partitions

⑶ Delete a partition or logical partition

⑷ Display partition information

⑸ Select the disk to modify (if it is a single hard drive)

If you want to create a partition, press 1 and then press Enter, as shown in Figure 3

Figure 3 Creating a DOS partition or logical drive interface

The meanings of the items in Figure 3 are as follows:

⑴ Create a primary partition

⑵ Create an extended partition

⑶ Create logical partitions

Friendship tip: The hard disk should be partitioned in the following order:

primary partitions → extended partitions → logical partitions

Deleting partitions is just the opposite.

A hard disk can be divided into multiple primary partitions, but there is no need to partition too much and one is sufficient. The disk space outside the primary partition is the extended partition, and the logical partition is obtained by dividing the extended partition.

One, Create primary partition

The steps to create a primary partition using Fdisk are as follows:

(1) Fdisk's "Create DOS Partition or logical drive Interface" (Figure 3) and press the "Enter" key appears as shown in Figure 4, showing Fdisk starting to detect the hard drive.

Figure 4 The process of creating a DOS Partition scan hard drive

(2) The ScreenTip "Whether you want to use the entire hard disk space as the primary partition and activate", as shown in Figure 5. Primary partitions are typically C disks. Now maybe no one will be the entire hard drive only a section of the bar!!! , press N, press ENTER, and continue.

Figure 5

(3) The program once again scan the hard disk, after the completion of the scan requires users to enter the size of the primary partition (Figure 6).

Figure 6

⑷ You can enter a value directly (in megabytes) or you can enter a percentage. This example enters 1000MB. Enter and press ENTER to confirm that the system will automatically assign the logical letter C to the primary partition . When finished, the screen prompts the primary partition to be set up and displays the primary partition capacity and the proportion of the hard disk that it occupies. The primary partition is finished. As shown in Figure 7

Primary partition complete

Second, create an extended partition

The operation to create an extended partition is done after the primary partition is created, as follows:

After the primary partition is created (Figure 7) Press the "ESC" key to return to the Fdisk main menu (Figure 2). Select 1 and press "Enter" to select 2 in Fdisk's "Create DOS Partition or logical drive Interface" (Figure 3).

The program begins to scan the hard disk to establish the capacity of the extended partition. When the scan is complete, the screen displays the full capacity currently available for the extended partition, and the ENTER key is pressed directly. If you want to install an operating system other than Microsoft, you can enter the space size or percentage of the extended partition as needed. As shown in Figure 8

Figure 8

In this example, press "Enter" directly. The total remaining space is divided into extended partitions. The screen displays the size of the extended partition and the proportion of the hard disk it occupies, as shown in Figure 9.

Figure 9

The extended partition is established.

Third, the establishment of logical partitions

After the extended partition has been established and press the "ESC" key, the ScreenTip does not have any logical partitions, as shown in Figure 10, well, next we'll build a logical partition.

Figure 10

The steps to establish a logical partition are as follows:

In Figure 10, enter the size or percentage of the first logical partition, not the maximum size of the extended partition. Figure 10 is 2000MB.

Press the "Enter" key to begin scanning the remaining disk space, as shown in Figure 11.

Figure 11

The first logical partition appears as shown in Figure 12, where you can enter the size of the second logical partition and create a second logical partition, as shown in Figure 12,

Figure 12

Figure 13

And then the third one. As shown in Figure 14

Figure 14

The interface after all logical partitions have been established is shown in Figure 15.

Figure 15

logical partitions complete.

Iv. Setting up Active partitions

Friendship tip: Only primary partitions can be set as active partitions, and when both primary and extended partitions are established on the hard disk, the primary partition must be set to active, the primary partition will be activated, or the hard drive may not boot. Do not forget this step.

The steps for setting up the active partition are as follows:

After all the logical partitions have been established (Figure 15) Press the "ESC" key, return to the Fdisk main interface (Figure 2), and then press 2 to set the active partition. As shown in Figure 16.

Figure 16

Press the "Enter" key as shown in Figure 17. The screen now shows all the partitions on your hard drive for you to choose from. Only primary partition 1 and extended partition 2, so you can only select Primary partition 1 to activate.

Figure 17

You can set the C disk as the active partition by pressing the "Enter" key when you select 1. A of the status item in Figure 18 indicates that the C disk is an active partition.

When a hard disk divides multiple primary partitions, you can set any of them to be active partitions.

After partitioning, you can select 4 to view the partition information in the Fdisk main interface, such as figures 19, 20, 21

At this point, the hard disk partition is complete.

Figure 18

Figure 19

Figure 20

Figure 21

If your love machine has more than one hard drive, the interface shown in Figure 22 will appear in the Fdisk main interface, where you can select the hard disk to partition.

Figure 22

V. Delete partitions

TPy The birds may not have a few fuel-efficient lights! It's not good to Zooey the hard drive.

Let me just say how to delete a partition.

If you want to repartition a hard disk that has already been partitioned, you need to remove the old partition first.

Delete partitions should follow the following order: (Contrary to the order in which partitions are established)

Delete non-dos partitions → delete logical partitions → remove extended partitions → Delete primary partitions

The steps to delete a partition are as follows:

In the main interface of Fdisk (Figure 2), select 3. As shown in Figure 23

Figure 23

Press the "Enter" key to enter the interface shown in Figure 24.

Figure 24

The meanings of the items in Figure 24 are as follows:

⑴ Delete Primary DOS Partition

⑵ Delete Extended partitions

⑶ Delete logical partitions in an extended partition

⑷ Delete non-DOS partitions

Non-DOS partitions are not generated unless you have a non-Windows operating system installed. If you don't have a non-DOS partition, the first thing you want to remove is the logical partition. There are no non- DOS partitions in this case, so direct selection 3 goes to the interface shown in Figure 25. In Figure 25, enter the letter of the logical partition that you want to delete, the volume label (no volume label in this case), enter "Y" and press "enter" to enter the interface of Figure 26 and no longer repeat. See Figure 26~28

Figure 25

Figure 26

Figure 27

Figure 28

After the logical partition is removed, select 2 in the FDISK delete partition interface, enter the interface shown in Figure 29, select the extended partition you want to delete, and then press "Y" and press "Enter" to remove the entire extended partition.

Figure 29

Finally delete the primary partition

In the Fdisk delete partition interface, select 1, enter the interface shown in Figure 30, enter the partition you want to delete, and then confirm that you can delete the primary partition after the volume label. When the partitions are all removed , the interface shown in Figure 31 appears.

Figure 30

Figure 31

If you choose 4 to view the partition information in the main interface of Fdisk (Figure 2), you will see the interface shown in Figure 32, suggesting that there are no partitions.

All partitions are complete, let's look at the zoning information.

The steps are as follows:

In the Fdisk main interface (Figure 2), select 4 and press the "enter" key to display the primary and extended partitions information, as shown in Figure 33

Figure 33

Figure 33 asks if you want to display the information for the logical partition. Press "Y" to display the detailed information for the logical partition. As shown in Figure 34.