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To: violetta martinez who wrote (5419)	8/27/1999 12:28:00 PM
From: mr.mark	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 110653

hi violetta, re "I also wonder why it takes so long to boot up windows"... here's a bit on that. hope something there applies. annoyances.org :) mark

To: violetta martinez who wrote (5419)	8/27/1999 12:37:00 PM
From: wily	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 110653

Violetta, I always reboot, hit "F8" at the right moment (just keep hitting F8 until you get the menu) to get the boot menu, and select "Command Prompt Only". This gives me a DOS environment that lets me do the disk stuff. Of course Richard's way will work too. Formatting a drive is essentially erasing everything on it. Partitioning a disk is dividing it up into sub-drives or logical drives that each get their own letter. It's good for multiple operating systems, organizing your data, and other more technical reasons that are beyond me. Since you don't have anything on your D: disk now (and you like to learn) you can play around with fdisk and see what it's like to have more than one partition. This will also give you a feel for how to use fdisk. It takes a few times to get used to. No, the partitions you create on D: will not eventually end up on C: (which I believe is your new drive?) w