Creating the extended partition, Fdisk – Epson Apex 20020 User Manual

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7. Press Y to use the maximum size for MS-DOS and press

Enter.

The screen displays the following message and

prompt:

System will now restart

Insert DOS diskette in drive A:

Press any key when ready ...

8. Press any key to restart the system (the Startup diskette is

already in drive A). Your computer begins reloading
MS-DOS. After the preliminary copyright information

displays on the screen, the date prompt appears.

9.

Press

Enter

twice to accept the displayed date and then the

time.

The system now recognizes the primary MS-DOS partition and

you can access it as drive C. You still need to install MS-DOS

on this drive with the SELECT command before you can use it.
For instructions, see “Formatting the Primary Partition” below.

Creating the Extended Partition

If you have the Apex 200\40, you still have 8MB of disk space

left over after creating the primary MS-DOS partition. Follow
these steps to create an 8MB extended partition and designate

it as drive D:

1. At the A> prompt, type

FDISK

and press

Enter.

The

screen displays the FDISK options menu.

2. Press 1 to select the Create DOS partition option and press

Enter.

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