Re: Fdisk vs WinXP
- From: "cquirke (MVP Windows shell/user)" <cquirkenews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 12:07:02 +0200
On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 09:19:06 -0600, Bruce Chambers
JethroUK© wrote:
I have a new machine that i need to partition/format and has no floppy
drive - Windows XP setup halts with a disc error asking me to run FDisk
Details on that, please?
FDisk is an old MS-DOS utility that is neither available or needed
in WinXP. All legitimate WinXP installation CDs are bootable and have
the capability of deleting, creating, and formatting partitions.
True, but there's more detail to this.
Firstly, XP's built-in partitioning tools are deficient, if you
require FAT32 volumes > 32G then you need better tools, which will
also do things like resize, slide, backup and copy volumes and
partitions. I use BING (www.bootitng.com) for this, without
installing it to HD (cancel the first dialog, go into Partition
Management) and this can be CDR or 1.44M booted.
The other side of the detail is that FDisk simply is not safe on
modern PCs, due to various capacity limits and bugs:
- Win98 and older: Can't "see" > 50G or so
- WinME and "fixed" 98: Can't "see" > 137G
- WinME and "fixed" 98: Can't enter values > 99 (G)
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