Re: fdisk

To finish up what you have already heard from gls858 and Ken
Blake, the FDISK program is a DOS "external" program that
needs to be run from a DOS system boot disk (either floppy
or hard.) Since XP does not have DOS, only a DOS emulator,
FDISK is not available in XP.

As Ken said, if the disk you are attempting to partition
(that is what FDISK was used for) a disk that is NOT the
system disk, use the disk management tool in "Manage" under
My Computer. If you are attempting to partition the System
disk (where XP is installed and booting from) you need to
either use 3rd party software (to split the drive into more
than the current partitions) or the bootable XP install CD
to delete the XP program and partition. You would then need
to partition and format the drive's partitions and install
all the OS and software again on the boot partition.

"Ted Gervais" <ve1drg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:%23DTlM3tmGHA.856@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi everyone.
I am running XP home and I am trying to format and
paritition a harddrive.
I brought up a DOS cmd screen and typed in fdisk and
nothing happened??
Shouldn't FDISK have come up?

If not, than how does one run FDISK with XP (home)??




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