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To: H Peterson who wrote (1567)1/17/1999 9:13:00 PM
From: wily   of 110652
 
PS Using fdisk to partition does erase EVERYTHING on a hard-disk. However, when you use the DOS "format" command you get the same warning that all the contents of the disk will be lost. That is not true. Only the contents of the particular virtual drive you are formatting will be erased. (And even then they can still be recovered with a special utility if they are not over-written)

And don't forget about the existence of alternative partitioning utilities such as Partition Magic that let you alter and add to the partitions on your disk without losing their contents. $70 cheap. (Although, like I said before, I don't know how easy it would be for someone to use this software who has never done it the DOS way since I haven't used it yet)

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