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CompTIA A Plus Study Guide: Installing Windows

Partition (Cont...)

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  • At the MS-DOS prompt type FDISK and press the enter key.

  • You will then be asked to choose 'Y' or 'N' for large disk support. If you select 'N' it means 'no', then you will be limited to FAT16 with a partition size of 2 GB. If you select 'Y' for large disk support then you will have FAT32 that does not have such limitations.

  • In the next screen you will have a menu displayed with number of choices. If you have a new hard disk then select option 1 for creating a primary partition or select 3 if you have a used hard disk for deleting the partition.

  • If you select 1 then on the next screen select 1 for primary boot partition.

  • On the next screen specify the size of the partition or give the % of the disk space you want to use for Primary drive. If you want only one partition then give 100% disk space else you need to create extended partitions and logical partitions.

 
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