Epson 20 - Manual (Page 50)

Creating the Extended Partition on a 40MB Disk
If you have a 40MB hard disk, follow these steps to create an 8MB
extended partition and designate it as drive D. (See the instructions
below if you have a 90MB hard disk.)
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Insert the working copy of the MS-DOS Startup diskette in drive
A (if it is not there already).
At the
A>
prompt, type
FDISK and press Enter. The screen
displays the FDISK Options menu.
Press 1 to select the Create DOS Partition option and press
Enter.
Press 2 to select the Create Extended DOS Partition option and
press Enter. The screen displays a message similar to this:
Total disk space is 1021 cylinders.
Maximum space available for partition
is 252 cylinders.
Enter partition size . . . . . . . . . . [252]
Press Enter to accept the partition size. The screen displays the
following message:
Extended DOS partition created
and shows you information about the partitions you have
created.
Press E
SC
to return to the FDISK Options menu. FDISK
automatically displays the Create Logical DOS Drive(s) option
and a message similar to this:
No logical drives defined
Total partition size is 252 cylinders.
Maximum space available for logical
drive is 252 cylinders.
Enter logical drive size . . . . . . [252]
Press Enter to accept the logical drive size. FDISK creates a
logical drive for the extended partition and designates it drive D.
3-6 Preparing a Hard
Disk for Use