Creating The Extended Partition On A 90Mb Disk - Epson 20 User Manual

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8.
Press E
twice. The screen displays the following message and
SC
prompts:
System will now restart
Insert DOS diskette in drive A:
Press any key when ready . . .
9.
Press any key to restart the system (the MS-DOS Startup diskette
is already in drive A). Your computer reloads MS-DOS,
displaying the preliminary copyright information and the date
prompt.
10. Press
Enter
The system now recognizes the primary partition as drive C and the
extended partition as drive D. The
After creating the partitions, you must format each one separately.
Follow the instructions later in this chapter.

Creating the Extended Partition on a 90MB Disk

If you have a 90MB hard disk, follow these steps to create a 58MB
extended partition and divide it into a 32MB drive D and a 26MB
drive E.
1.
Insert the working copy of the MS-DOS Startup diskette in drive
A (if it is not there already).
2.
At the
prompt, type
A>
displays the FDISK Options menu.
3.
Press 1 to select the Create DOS Partition option and press
Enter.
4.
Press 2 to select the Create Extended DOS Partition option and
press
Enter.
Total disk space is 1021 cylinders.
Maximum space available for partition
is 657 cylinders.
Enter partition size . . . . . . . . . .
twice to accept the date and time shown.
FDISK and press Enter.
The screen displays a message similar to this:
> prompt reappears.
A
Preparing a Hard Disk for Use
The screen
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