Partitioning your Hard Drive

Step 1: Run ScanDisk and Defrag on the drive you're planning on partitioning. (You don't have to do this, it just can prevent a lot of problems in the future.)

Step 2: Partitioning the drive:
This can be done with a commercial product like Partition Magic (http://www.powerquest.com), or something free like FIPS(http://www.igd.fhg.de/~aschaefe/fips/). With FIPS, download it and read the documentation. Then, put a floppy disk in the drive and make it bootable(e.g. type format c:/s or sys a: to make it bootable without formatting it). Once it's bootable, copy FIPS.exe, restorrb.exe, FIPS.FAQ and errors.txt to the disk. Reboot the PC with the disk still in it, then at the A:\ prompt type fips and hit enter.
When it asks you if you want to make a backup of your partition table, select yes.
When you're choosing the size of the partition, choose whatever you want depending on what you're going to be putting on it.

Step 3: Reboot, then open My Computer - you should see a new drive there. Go into a DOS prompt, and format it. If the drive was D:, you'd type format D:, and so on.

Step 4: Run ScanDisk and Defrag on your new drive, and you're done 

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