Need help partitioning my hard drives..........
 

Hi,

I am getting ready to install Windows 98 on a 1ghz P3 with 512mb Ram system.

I have two hard drives a 10GB and a 40GB.

How should I partion them?

In FDISK I noticed options for DOS, Non-Dos, and logical, I am not sure
which to use for the second hard drive.

Also which should be my primary drive the 10GB or the 40GB?

Thanks for any advice and opinions!!!

Need help partitioning my hard drives..........
 

"Dave" wrote in message
...

Hi,

I am getting ready to install Windows 98 on a 1ghz P3 with 512mb Ram
system.

I have two hard drives a 10GB and a 40GB.

How should I partion them?

In FDISK I noticed options for DOS, Non-Dos, and logical, I am not sure
which to use for the second hard drive.

Also which should be my primary drive the 10GB or the 40GB?

Thanks for any advice and opinions!!!


If the drives are already partitioned , to re-use them...just format them...

if they are blank...run fdisk

When you run fdisk say "yes" (y)
to enable large drive support... That will allow the drives to be formatted
as fat32

then just create one primary partition on each drive


Once the drives are partitioned , reboot the computer and format each...


How you use them is a matter for personal taste

Need help partitioning my hard drives..........
 

"Dave" wrote in message
...

Hi,

I am getting ready to install Windows 98 on a 1ghz P3 with 512mb Ram
system.

I have two hard drives a 10GB and a 40GB.

How should I partion them?

In FDISK I noticed options for DOS, Non-Dos, and logical, I am not sure
which to use for the second hard drive.

Also which should be my primary drive the 10GB or the 40GB?

Thanks for any advice and opinions!!!


If the drives are already partitioned , to re-use them...just format them...

if they are blank...run fdisk

When you run fdisk say "yes" (y)
to enable large drive support... That will allow the drives to be formatted
as fat32

then just create one primary partition on each drive


Once the drives are partitioned , reboot the computer and format each...


How you use them is a matter for personal taste

You can choice a large (40GB) hard drive for primary.
Because you can save install and save many data or file in large Hard Drive.

and for partion,
you can divide to 2 part but same size. for example 40 : 2 (so each portion is 20GB)

hope it can help you.

Need help partitioning my hard drives..........
 

Hendry_Budiman wrote:

Dave;228266 Wrote:
Hi,

I am getting ready to install Windows 98 on a 1ghz P3 with 512mb Ram
system.

I have two hard drives a 10GB and a 40GB.

How should I partion them?

In FDISK I noticed options for DOS, Non-Dos, and logical, I am not sure

which to use for the second hard drive.

Also which should be my primary drive the 10GB or the 40GB?

Thanks for any advice and opinions!!!

You can choice a large (40GB) hard drive for primary.
Because you can save install and save many data or file in large Hard
Drive.

and for partion,
you can divide to 2 part but same size. for example 40 : 2 (so each
portion is 20GB)

hope it can help you.

--
Hendry_Budiman

You could also use a slightly different scheme.

Use the fastest of the two for your Primary C: drive.
Partition it so that the C: Partition is 600Mb or so. That way you can
conveniently back up your Operating System to a single CD. The rest of that
drive you can make into Extended Partitions, say , E:. F: for programs and
data. The Second HD needs to have other Extended partitions, as many as you
like but the first one will be D:. For years I have used a second HD to back
up data on the First one.
I haven't had one fail yet in such a setup but when it does my data will be
available on the other one.

Need help partitioning my hard drives..........
 

Hendry_Budiman wrote:

Dave;228266 Wrote:
Hi,

I am getting ready to install Windows 98 on a 1ghz P3 with 512mb Ram
system.

I have two hard drives a 10GB and a 40GB.

How should I partion them?

In FDISK I noticed options for DOS, Non-Dos, and logical, I am not sure

which to use for the second hard drive.

Also which should be my primary drive the 10GB or the 40GB?

Thanks for any advice and opinions!!!

You can choice a large (40GB) hard drive for primary.
Because you can save install and save many data or file in large Hard
Drive.

and for partion,
you can divide to 2 part but same size. for example 40 : 2 (so each
portion is 20GB)

hope it can help you.

--
Hendry_Budiman

You could also use a slightly different scheme.

Use the fastest of the two for your Primary C: drive.
Partition it so that the C: Partition is 600Mb or so. That way you can
conveniently back up your Operating System to a single CD. The rest of that
drive you can make into Extended Partitions, say , E:. F: for programs and
data. The Second HD needs to have other Extended partitions, as many as you
like but the first one will be D:. For years I have used a second HD to back
up data on the First one.
I haven't had one fail yet in such a setup but when it does my data will be
available on the other one.

your 40g hard disk must be extension dos logic setion, you can use fdisk to figure it out and then format it, it's pretty easy to do in dos, you also can format it after you set your windows and use windows disk tool.