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Appendix F Configuring Your Hard Disk (Fdisk) 3171
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For example, your Change Active Partition screen might look like
this:
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Change Active Partition
Current
Fixed
Disk
Drive:
1
Partition
Status
Type
Start
End
Size
1
A
DOS
0
119
120
-^
2
N
non-DOS
120
304
185
Total
disk
space
is
305
cylinders
Enter
the
number
of
the
partition
you
want
to
make
active
:
[11
Press
ESC
to
return
to
FDISK
Options
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Type the number of the partition that you want to activate, and
press the return key. The default setting is the active partition
number.
(****)
If you are using the entire hard disk as a DOS partition, fdisk
displays the following message:
>-s
Partition
1
is
already
active
Press
Esc
to
return
to
FDISK
Options
( ^
instead of prompting you for the partition that you want to
activate. Press the esc key to return to the main menu.
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Choice 3 — Deleting a DOS Partition
If you choose the third option on the main menu, fdisk displays a
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screen showing the status of each partition on your hard disk, and
prompts you to delete the DOS partition. When you delete a DOS
partition, fdisk deletes the partition boundaries and any data that
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existed in that partition. Once you delete the partition, you can
not recover that data.
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Note
You cannot use fdisk to delete a non-DOS partition.
Instead, to continue using ms-dos after you have deleted the DOS
partition, you must put an ms-dos system disk into drive A. If you
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want to start a different operating system in another partition of
your hard disk, you must change the active partition to that
number before you delete the DOS partition.
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