Re: Partition and Dual Boot Vol lll - the nitty gritty

On 04/12/2005 pmj wrote:

> That's weird - I meant (& presume that what Hawkeye Posted was)
> the FDisk Screen that you get (usually Option 4? - "Display Partition
> Information" or by using the /status Command Line Switch with the
> FDisk Command) which shows the existing Partition(s) & the Drive
> Letter(s) if any, which are Allocated to them, along with the "Volume
> Label" & "Type" of them & which Partition (if any) is Marked as
> "Active" - & the % Space (the "Usage" Column) that it says is the
> Percentage of the Hard Disk that the Partition occupies (or in the
> case of a Logical Drive in an Extended Partition, the Percentage of
> the Extended Partition that the Logical Drive occupies).


You made me get up from my comfortable chair to fire W98 up again :-(

Running FDISK from a command prompt, option 4 shows:

C:1 A PRI DOS DOS_BOOT 6001 FAT32 24%
2 EXT DOS 19255 76%

Then looking at Logical drives:
D: W98_BOOT 20003 FAT32 13%
E: APPSDATA 64788 FATS32 87%

W98 agrees with the C: drive but the D: drive figure is dodgy and the E
drive is rubbish, it may be the overflow problem FDISK has with large
disks?

This is W98 SE 4.10.2222A

Have you got W98 handy to fire up and check?

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