- EPSON Equity 386/20 - User Manual

Creating the Extended Partition on a 40MB Disk
If you have a 40MB hard disk, follow these steps to create an 8MB
extended partition and designate it as drive D. (See the instructions
below if you have a 90MB hard disk.)
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Insert the working copy of the MS-DOS Startup diskette in drive
A (if it is not there already).
At the A> prompt, type FDISK and press Enter. The screen
displays the FDISK Options menu.
Press 1 to select the Create DOS Partition option and press
Enter.
Press 2 to select the Create Extended DOS Partition option and
press Enter. The screen displays a message similar to this:
Total disk space is 1021 cylinders.
Maximum space available for partition
is 252 cylinders.
Enter partition size . . . . . . . . . . [252]
Press Enter to accept the partition size. The screen displays the
following message:
Extended DOS partition created
and shows you information about the partitions you have
created.
Press ESC to return to the FDISK Options menu. FDISK
automatically displays the Create Logical DOS Drive(s) option
and a message similar to this:
No logical drives defined
Total partition size is 252 cylinders.
Maximum space available for logical
drive is 252 cylinders.
Enter logical drive size . . . . . . [252]
Press Enter to accept the logical drive size. FDISK creates a
logical drive for the extended partition and designates it drive D.
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