partitioning through usb port app

[Rod Speed]

Rod Speed wrote

Just checked the bootitng manual, and it says that an extended is a special form of primary.

Its wrong.

I'll stick with that.

More fool you.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_partition

 

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Rod Speed wrote in news:[email protected]

Yes, but the obvious approach is to not use that.

Thats not the problem, the problem is that it doesnt have 48 bit LBA support.

As if that matters with an USB drive.

 

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Ed Light wrote in news:[email protected]

I think you can only have one extended; but, you can put lots of volumes
in it.

The extended is a form of primary, I *think*.

Who cares.

 

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[Ed Light]

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Who cares.

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[Franc Zabkar]

I need to partition a 250GB HD using a usb to ide adapter on a win98se
system. My usual partitioning tool will not work on a drive connected
via a usb port.

What program is the simplest and least complicated to use to partiton
to, if memory serves?, the 100gb limit for win98se? What are the
potential problems in doing this, if any? Thanks for any helpful
answers. Sorry I don't have time to look this up right now, so can
someone please help?

I've just FDISKed and formatted a 320GB USB drive as two 160GB
partitions. To provide USB 2.0 support for my chipset and USB support
for storage peripherals, I use the Maximus Decim NUSB driver set which
consists of the relevant Win ME components:

http://www.technical-assistance.co.uk/kb/usbmsd98.php
http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=43605

You can then FDISK your drive in a DOS window and format the logical
drives from the GUI (I FDISKed in real mode DOS using DOS USB
drivers). Just be sure to specify the partition sizes in percentage
terms rather than actual capacities because FDISK cannot display the
large sizes correctly. Also be aware that the original FDISK that
ships with 98SE does not handle discs larger then 64GB. You need this
MS download for that:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/263044/en-us

This post describes how to access a USB HD in real DOS:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.msdos.misc/msg/4dbe534a93d566de?dmode=source

- Franc Zabkar

 

[Franc Zabkar]

I've just FDISKed and formatted a 320GB USB drive as two 160GB
partitions. To provide USB 2.0 support for my chipset and USB support
for storage peripherals, I use the Maximus Decim NUSB driver set which
consists of the relevant Win ME components:

I should have said that I'm using Win 98SE.

- Franc Zabkar