Having trouble getting into FDISK in XP Home

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Perhaps I have made the wrong start-up disk? I have made an MS-DOS Start up Disk - but when I'm in DOS as type in FDISK, I get an bad command message.

Any ideas?

(I'm trying to format and partion a seconday HDD).

Many thanks.
 
Any special reason why you can't use the management's console's disk management snap in to partition and format the disk? Right click my computer and select manage. There is a disk management tab. You can do all of this with a graphical interface whilst the OS is running..
 
How did you create the DOS startup disk?
You have to manually copy all the utilities to the floppy.
 
FDISK is old news. Start/Control panel/Adminstrative Tools/Computer Management/Disk Manager should do it.

FDISK will probalby not properly handle NTFS formatted volumes. FDISK is for DOS and DOS only handles FAT file systems.
 
FDISK has nothing to do with formatting volumes, the only limitation is that it supports only DOS partitioning scheme (so you won't be able to install Solaris on your machine, no dynamic disks either).

But of course the XP GUI thingy ar any other partition manager is much better.
 
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