6
Option five allows you to select the drive you want to partition. Make sure that your
new drive is selected.
4.Select "Create DOS partition or logical DOS drive" by pressing 1. Then press
ENTER.
5.Select "
Create primary DOS partition
" by pressing
1
again. Then press
ENTER
.
Create your first drive partition. If you are creating a partition that will be used to
boot your computer (drive C), make sure that the partition is marked active.
6.Create an extended partition and additional logical drives as necessary, until all the
space on your new hard drive has been partitioned.
7.When the partitioning is complete,
FDISK
reboots your computer.
Caution: Make sure to use the correct drive letters so that you do not format a drive
that already contains data.
8.At the A: prompt, type
format c:/s
, where c is the letter of your first new partition,
Repeat the format process for all the new partitions you have created.
9.After you format your DOM, it is ready to use.
