Hi,

I have a 6.2GB Western Digital hard drive that I would like to format and
put 2 partitions on to install in a computer running W98 SE.

Can anyone tell me how to do this?

Thank You

I just spent some time doing this myself recently, and i used FDISK on the 98 boot disk
Once you get the boot disk (the floppy) to run at start up, before the blue 98 logo, it becomes self explanetory
I managed to format my hard drive and create 2 partitions and this was my first try (one for 98SE the other for XP)

FDISK is the DOS hard disk drive partitioning tool, however it is only
suitable for drives with no data. If you are contemplating changing the
partitioning for a disk that contains useful data then you should be using
one of several third-party utilities that can do the job.

Otherwise, boot to your startup floppy and run FDISK. Delete any existing
partitioning, create a primary DOS partition of the required size, an
extended partition in the rest of the disk, and a logical drive to take up
the whole of the extended partition.

Once the drive is partitioned you can then use FORMAT to format the
partitions.
--
Jeff Richards
MS MVP W95/W98
"Francis Mauser" <fmauser@juno.com> wrote in message
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If you already have a primary disk in that has the OS, you do not have to set
the new drive as a primary, make it all extended.
Install the drive in the machine. Start the machine with a Win98 boot disk.
At the prompt type: fdisk and press enter. Press Y when asked about large disk
support and press enter.
The next screen will most likely have your original disk set as the current
fixed disk, press 5 > enter to get the screen to change the current fixed disk.
Enter the number of the new disk, most likely 2 and press enter.
Press 1 > enter to create a DOS or Logical partition
Press 2 > enter to create an extended DOS partition.
Type in the size > press enter.
Create a second DOS partition.
Pull the disk out, press ctrl+alt+del to boot to windows.
Open MyComputer, right click the new partition and click format.

Make absolutely sure of which drive you are working on while doing any of this,
fdisk or format. If you choose the wrong drive, say goodbye to any data on that
drive


--
Brian A.

Jack of all trades, Master of none. One can never truly be a master as there is
always more to learn.

"Francis Mauser" <fmauser@juno.com> wrote in message
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Thank you to all who have given me advice on this post, except for one other
area of clarification, which I will put in another post, you have all helped
me with the task I want to do.

Francis