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To create an extended partition, at the Fdisk Options screen, press
1 on your keyboard, press ENTER, press 2, and then press ENTER. Fdisk
displays the maximum size that the extended partition can be. We
recommend that you use this maximum value, because you can only create
one extended partition. Any hard disk space you do not assign to the
extended partition cannot be accessed by a hard disk and, consequently,
by Windows Me.
After you designate the size of the extended partition and press
ENTER, Fdisk takes you either to the screen where you create logical
drives in the extended partition, or it displays information about the
extended and primary partitions. If it displays the partition information,
press ESC to get to the screen where you create logical drives. The
maximum available space in the extended partition is displayed both as
a percentage (100%) and megabytes.
Follow the instructions on the screen to divide up the space into one
or more logical drives, pressing ENTER after typing a percentage or
megabyte quantity. Continue creating logical drives until you have used
up all the space in the extended partition. To return to the Fdisk
Options screen, press ESC.
If the hard disk you are creating the partitions on is the only or
first hard disk, and you created an extended partition, you need to set
the primary partition to Active, indicating that it's the partition that
the computer starts up from. To set the primary partition to Active,
press 2 on your keyboard, press ENTER, press the number that represents
the primary partition, and then press ENTER. To return to the Fdisk
Options screen, press ESC.
After you have created the partitions and logical drives, at the
Fdisk Options screen, press ESC. To exit Fdisk and return to the
command prompt, press ESC again. When you're at the command prompt,
you must turn off your computer for your partition changes to take
effect.
You are now ready to format the drives you created.
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