[Simply Computers] Partion

 

Hi B.Welkin.. brings up a question. I just formatted a lap top
forgot to make a partition so I have only "C" If I would have
created a "D" partition I could save things there and if " C "
crashed or I needed to format " C " it " D " would remain intact.
Is there a way now that it is installed to create a partition?
Or is that only possible during installation? thanx

On 7/3/2011 9:08 AM, B Welkin wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Since your objective seems to be to run DOS
> dependent software why not create a Virtual DOS partition?
>
> BTW you cannot just "format" a CD except by using
> CD burning tools designed for the purpose. I use
> Nero (ver 6 [yeah, yeah, I know]) and there is an
> option to burn either a bootable CD or DVD. I
> have to point to the appropriate system files such as IO.sys etc.
>
> Here is a good web site to assist (and explain)
> in making bootdisks for various OSes: http://www.bootdisk.com/
>
> Good luck.
>
> ...Bryce
>
> At 09:11 AM 7/3/2011, you wrote:
> >
> >
> >Dear Vincent,made a
> >I have s/w which can be run in MSDOS Os only.
> >All systems are running in winxp. I am having
> >one HDD having dos os on it. The s/w is running
> >well If I boot thru hdd with dos os. I want to
> >run the s/w thru CD only which contains this s/w
> >and related data without changing hdd having
> >winxp os. To get bootable cd, I had boot thru
> >HDD with dos os and also run device driver
> >vide-cdd.sys and mscdex to datect cd drive in
> >dos os. Now CD drive is detected and it shows
> >contents on it thru command DIR E:\ .To make
> >bootable cd I had tried to format blank cd with
> >command format e:/u/s.It show msg. Cannot format network drive.
> >In short I want to boot system thru  DOS
> >bootable cd though the system hdd is having win xp os.
> >Pl help.
> >
> >--- On Sat, 7/2/11, Vincent Winterling
> ><<mailto:vwinterling%40verizon.net>vwinterling@verizon.net
> <mailto:vwinterling%40verizon.net>> wrote:
> >It's not clear to me what you're trying to do.
> >If you could tell us some of what you've done and what you want to
> achieve
> >perhaps we can help.
> >
> >
> >[mailto:simplycomputers2@yahoogroups.com
> <mailto:simplycomputers2%40yahoogroups.com>] On Behalf Of chandu tilak
> >Hi,
> >I had tried to make MSDos cd from Hdd having DOS
> >os. It says Can't format Network drive.
> >Is there any other way to do the same?. I want to run some dos based
> >software from cd only.
>
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>
>

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