Preparing a Hard Disk for Use with Windows 9x/Me
As you have seen in the previous section, there are several ways to prepare hard disks with Windows 9x/Me:
As the first hard disk
As an additional drive
Entire drive as a bootable (primary) partition
Part of the drive as a primary partition, the rest as an extended partition with logical drive(s)
All of the drive as an extended partition with logical drive(s)
No matter which of these methods you use, the same two programs (Fdisk and Format) are used.
Windows 9x/Me use two different programs descended from MS-DOS to prepare a hard disk:
Fdisk creates or destroys disk partitions and logical drive letters.
Format prepares drive letters created with Fdisk.
The process that follows is almost identical in ...
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