FDISK command Use detailed

Fdisk is not as complicated as some junior friends think. He is English, and in DOS is not good with translation software, hehe! In fact, my English level is No,yes, Good,ok, three pieces of meat ... I remember a friend in the forum who wanted to format the hard disk partition, and he just wants to know the detailed steps, but he doesn't want to know any of the principles, and I'm going to tell my friends that I don't think Fdisk has any theory, just need to know the simple dependencies, like a table is our computer, And the frame of the desk drawer is our hard drive, want to put a variety of things in the drawer (hard disk), books, you must make him a drawer bucket, and this process is to do drawer partition, before our table is small, can only do one or two drawer (primary partition) put in, and space occupy very large (FAT12, FAT16 partition Format), and now we can take up a small amount of space to store a lot of things (FAT32, NTFS partition format), and here is how a subordinate relationship? First we need to have a basic row of drawer frame (a lower-level formatted hard drive), then make sure to do a few drawer (primary partition and extended partition, in fact, the extended partition is also a primary partition), one of the drawer locked, and this lock if not open the second drawer can not open, This is the relationship between the primary partition and the extended partition, and the logical partition? That's our square in the second drawer ... Hey! I said and you learn how to use Fdisk how to make a table? Alas! I'm a man! Love Is rambling! EH eh! Don't throw me with the rotten cabbage leaves. I'm not going to say Fdisk yet? Related article: fdisk hard disk partition diagram tutorial

All right! Start the computer with a Windows 98 Startup disk, or press F8 to open the boot menu before entering Windows 98 to select 5 into pure DOS mode, and when you see the a:> or C:> prompt, type the command fdisk, and then the following query interface appears:

Your computer has a disk larger than MB. This version of the Window Sincludes improved support for large disks, resulting at more efficientuse of disk spaces on large D Rives, and allowing disks over the 2 GB to is formatted as a single drive.

Important:if you enable large disk support and create any new drives in Thisdisk, you are not being able to access the new Drive (s) using the other Operatingsystems, including some versions of Windows and Windows NT, as as a earlier versions O F Windows and MS-DOS. In addition, disk utilities that were is not designed explicitly for the FAT32 file system won't is able to work with this Disk. If you are need to access this disk with the other operating

Systems or older disk utilities, do not enable large drive support.

Do your wish to enable large disk support (y/n) ...?. Y

It's probably saying:

This version of Windows has support for large hard drives, and if you use a large hard drive support you will not be able to use Windows 95 and Windows NT operating systems as well as earlier windows with MS-DOS.

Do you want to use a large hard drive to support ...? ......... ....... ..... Y

Here's a description, if you choose "Y", after the partition of the file system for FAT32, if you choose "N", after the partition of the file system for FAT16, as long as you do not install MS-DOS or WIN95, press "y" hit enter it, otherwise the hard drive will be divided into 2G a 2G one partition! Recommended to have more than 8G hard drive friends Choose "Y"

Next we go to the next interface, FDISK's main menu:

FDISK Options

Current fixed disk drive:1 present hard drive

Choose one of the following: Select an item below

1. Create Primary DOS Partition 1. Create Primary DOS Partition

2. Create Extended DOS Partition 2. Create an extended DOS partition

3. Create Logical dos Drive (s) in the Extended dos Partition

3. Create Logical DOS Drive in Extended DOS Partition

Enter choice: [1]
If we have a new hard drive, then we first need to create a primary DOS partition and then build an extended DOS partition, if not so will not be able to build partitions, OK, press 1 after the return, the program will be scanning the hard disk space, The entire hard drive is then shown in M (100%) brackets with a line below the percentage of the hard disk that is remaining in the capacity. Enter the size unit of the primary DOS partition as M or the percentage of the hard disk capacity, and enter a number in the bracket below, such as [1024] or Percent [5%], Then hit enter the main DOS partition after the establishment, that is, the usual C disk, then you can choose to create an extended partition such as digital input [19456] or a percentage of [85%], generally the remaining hard disk capacity is established as an extended partition, I have the number here for example! Next we should build the logical drive, the creation method is basically the same, it should be noted that when the logical driver is established, the total capacity shown by the program is the capacity of the extended partition, that is, we are dividing the logical partition with an extended partition of 100%, please do not confuse!

The above is the entire process of creating partitions, the order can not be reversed, after the establishment of partitions we need to do one thing is to activate the partition, select menu item 2 set the active partition, hit enter after the interface:

Set Active Partition

Current fixed disk drive:1

Partition Status Type Volume Label Mbytes System Usage

C:1 A PRI DOS windo~198 1024 FAT32 5%

2 EXT DOS 19456 85%

Total Disk 20480 Mbytes

Enter the number of the partition you want to make active ...: [1]

Enter the partition number you want to activate ...: [1]

After entering the number 1, the C: Disk will be activated!

At this point, the entire hard drive to create the partition work is completed, then you can press ESC to quit Fdisk, when exiting the program, you will get you to restart after the format of the operation of the prompts, then be sure to restart the computer before you can format the operation! I remember the first time after the division, and do not restart the computer is a blur to the C: disk to format, the format of the finished see C: Disk Capacity also wonder: how and I just partition capacity does not match it? At that time also did not care, directly began to install Windows 98, but others 98 do not eat your set, the partition table has errors, I will not let you install! So I toss for two days, no way! I am not allowed to install it until I repartition it.

All right! The above is the complete partition creation operation!

Next, let's talk about removing partitions, the steps to remove partitions are entirely the opposite of building partitions, creating a primary DOS partition, establishing an extended partition, and finally establishing a logical partition, but deleting the partition before deleting the logical partition and then removing the extended partition before removing the primary DOS partition! It is as if the table which has just been done is the last to put the drawer into the drawer, and now to dismantle the table, we must first take the drawer out, and then disassemble the other! Go get it! Why did you pull it on the table again? or say it again. Delete the partition and type 3 on the main menu. We'll get the following menu:

Delete dos Partition or Logical dos Drive

Choose one of the following:

1. Delete Primary DOS Partition 1. Delete Primary DOS Partition

2. Delete Extended DOS Partition 2. Remove Extended DOS Partition

3. Delete Logical dos Drive (s) in the Extended dos Partition

3. Remove Logical DOS Drive in Extended DOS Partition

4. Delete Non-dos Partition 4. Remove Non-DOS partitions

All right! As we have just said, first delete the logical partition, type 3 back to the car, you will see the logical partition list, there is a line of English warning below, probably meaning that the deleted logical drive will lose all the data

Which drive do you want to delete ... [F].................

What Drive do your want to delete ...? ................ ..... F

When a drive name is entered, such as F, the system will require you to enter the drive volume label,

For example, our drive volume label is test, input and then hit Enter,

Enter Volume Label ...................... [TEST]

The system will again confirm that you deleted the drive by pressing "Y" to enter and completing the deletion of the logical partition.

Are you sure (y/n) ............ ......... ... Y

Then repeat the above to remove the logical drive in turn, and the extended partition will be the same as the primary partition's deletion method.

In addition, if you have Non-dos partition can also be deleted, but in the Delete section menu, select 4