Installation guide

CREATING MULTIPLE PARTITIONS WITH DOS 3.3
DRIVE:
CONTROLLER:
SYSTEM:
MiniScribe 3650
WD1002 - WXl
XT
The drive was virtually split at Cylinder 404 in the low level format to
create two logical drives. In FDisk a 10MB DOS partition and a 10l\t1B
extended DOS partition was created within each logical drive. These
partitions were designated C. D, E and F.
Drive 1 Drive 2
DOS
Iii
EXT.
DOS 3.3 will not allow two DOS or two extended DOS partitions to be
created within a logical drive partition. What is of interest. when the
extended DOS partition was created on the first logical drive, DOS 3.3
labeled it as the D partition. When the DOS partition was created on
the second logical drive, DOS 3.3 then labeled it as the D partition and
changed the extended DOS partition on the first logical drive to E.
If the drive is not virtually split into logical units, DOS 3.3 is capable of
creating multiple partitions through the FDISK command. This is
accomplished by first creating a DOS partition (32:MB limit), then
selecting extended DOS for the remaining cylinders on the drive.
When logical partitions are assigned. DOS 3.3 will create 32MB
partitions labeled D, E, F, etc. until the maximum number of cylinders
indicated as extended DOS are reached.
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