How can i do the partition of my hard disk using dos?

Answer 1

u can use diskpart utility.


diskpart command.. if running win xp...


or you can boot into dos mode and with disk manager u can partition it...

Answer 2

Bear in mind that if your current hard drive is a single partition and you want to create another partition/logical drive, that you will lose everything on you hard drive.

If your intention is to create a new partition and thereby resize your current partion and create a new partition then you will need to get hold of a program like Partition Magic which does not destroy data on your current partiton.

Answer 3

U can use a free DOS utility called "FDisk". Just run this from a Windows 98 boot disk. BE CAREFUL though, this will destroy any data on the disk. So backup first if you want any existing data

Answer 4

You can use fdisk... part of most versions of DOS, certainly there in MS-DOS up to version 7 (the one under win98).

BUT

BUT

BUT

the MS-DOS fdisk program is pretty limited because it's old. It has problems with big disks, the older the version the more limited it is.. The MS-DOS fdisk program also has problems with partitions that are not recognised (because they belong to foreign OS versions).

Answer 5

DO NOT USE FDISK!!!

Today's hard drives can be severely damaged by this dinosaur utility.

Go to the hard drive manufacturer's web site and get their free Disk Management software.

Answer 6

If you are using pure DOS, i.e. something like DOS 5 or DOS 6.2, the command you use is

fdisk

However, do not try this while you are in Windows, spawning DOS through 'cmd'

Answer 7

You can use FDISK command to partition your harddisk in DOS.

Answer 8

f disk, just need to make a boot floppy disk. or you could go to the manufacture too ether is good.