Re: Fdisk vs WinXP

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cquirke (MVP Windows shell/user) wrote:

True, but there's more detail to this.

Firstly, XP's built-in partitioning tools are deficient,....


That's arguable. They meet the purpose for which they were designed, do they not?


.... if you
require FAT32 volumes > 32G then you need better tools,...


Who'd want to waste space on such an inferior file system? It's utility is limited to external devices used to transfer data to and/or from legacy Win9x systems. (I know, you don't like NTFS, but most of us do.)


which will
also do things like resize, slide, backup and copy volumes and
partitions.


Such capabilities are certainly nice, but useless during the initial OS installation phase, which is the topic of this thread


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.



As do I, but not during the initial istallation.


The other side of the detail is that FDisk simply is not safe on
modern PCs, due to various capacity limits and bugs:

Agreed.


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