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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:
' 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
i^^ 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.
O Choice 3 — Deleting a DOS Partition
If you choose the third option on the main menu, fdisk displays a
f~^ 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
n existed in that partition. Once you delete the partition, you can
not recover that data.
f*\ 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
y—-v 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.