Thread: Fdisk

I want to partition my disk using FDISK. Can someone tell me how to do this? I think if I do it wrongly I may lose data. So give me tips for doing this.

Yes you must be careful while using FDISK since any existing data on your disk will be destroyed while you create partitins with FDISK. So take proper backup of necessary data as required before doing partition with FDISK.

Yes , janelyn is right

there will be more steps to be followed..
i just tell basic......

fdisk is started by typing (as root) fdisk device at the command prompt. device might be something like /dev/hda or /dev/sda The basic fdisk commands you need are:

p print the partition table

n create a new partition

d delete a partition

q quit without saving changes

w write the new partition table and exit

To do partition in FDISK, you should take back up of your data, otheriwise, you may lose it. Txx

yes...
they all are right but u didnt clear that for what os r u partitioning ur hard disk?

Yes Yash is right, Because You will get Fdisk in 98 Bootable Cd, But i don't know how we can it in XP .


So Friends, give suggestion if Any Idea.

Hello,
Regards your problem with "fdisk" . As already mentioned in the previous posts , please backup data .

Your doubt regarding fdisk in WinXP ( Professional taken into consideration ),
Assuming you have no drives , you can create drives just as fdisk ( In Win9x). And there is also an option to format them using FAT,FAT32,NTFS .
Its much more easier than fdisk in Win9x.

Hope it helps ,

Regards
Mallampalli Yasaswi Srinivas