Creating the extended partition on a 90mb disk – Epson 20 User Manual

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8. Press E

SC

twice. The screen displays the following message and

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

twice to accept the date and time shown.

The system now recognizes the primary partition as drive C and the

extended partition as drive D. The

A

> prompt reappears.

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

A>

prompt, type

FDISK and press

Enter.

The screen

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.

The screen displays a message similar to this:

Total disk space is 1021 cylinders.

Maximum space available for partition

is 657 cylinders.

Enter partition size . . . . . . . . . .

[657]

Preparing a Hard Disk for Use

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