good partitioning program needed

good partitioning program needed

[Kristoffer Gustafsson]

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Hello!

I need a good program to partition my harddrive.
I've gotten a 200 gb harddrive, and I want to install windows 98 and linux on the same computer.

I'm using fedora core 3.
So, what partitioning tools are good?

I've tried disk druid, but it doesn't seem very accesible o me.

Since I plan to install win 98 first I don't have linux at all, so I think that I'll have to do with some dos or windows based program.

Also, When installing fedora core 3 partition errors are much more common than when using fedora 2.

Have any of you noticed this?

/Kristoffer

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Re: good partitioning program needed

[Willem van der Walt]

I suggest you first install 98 and just make sure that you tell it to only 
use the first lets say 100 gb.
Then just install fedora and you could even let it do its own thing.
I would use fdisk.  Never had a problem with that.
Regards, Willem


On Tue, 30 May 2006, Kristoffer Gustafsson wrote:

> Hello!
>
> I need a good program to partition my harddrive.
> I've gotten a 200 gb harddrive, and I want to install windows 98 and linux on the same computer.
>
> I'm using fedora core 3.
> So, what partitioning tools are good?
>
> I've tried disk druid, but it doesn't seem very accesible o me.
>
> Since I plan to install win 98 first I don't have linux at all, so I think that I'll have to do with some dos or windows based program.
>
> Also, When installing fedora core 3 partition errors are much more common than when using fedora 2.
>
> Have any of you noticed this?
>
> /Kristoffer
>

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Re: good partitioning program needed

[Kristoffer Gustafsson]

Hello!

My fdisk can only take about 50 gigabyte of my hard drive.

Don't know really why.

What version of fdisk are you using?
Could you e-mail it please?

/Kristoffer
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From: "Willem van der Walt" <wvdwalt@csir.co.za>
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Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2006 9:10 AM
Subject: Re: good partitioning program needed


>I suggest you first install 98 and just make sure that you tell it to only 
>use the first lets say 100 gb.
> Then just install fedora and you could even let it do its own thing.
> I would use fdisk.  Never had a problem with that.
> Regards, Willem
>
>
> On Tue, 30 May 2006, Kristoffer Gustafsson wrote:
>
>> Hello!
>>
>> I need a good program to partition my harddrive.
>> I've gotten a 200 gb harddrive, and I want to install windows 98 and 
>> linux on the same computer.
>>
>> I'm using fedora core 3.
>> So, what partitioning tools are good?
>>
>> I've tried disk druid, but it doesn't seem very accesible o me.
>>
>> Since I plan to install win 98 first I don't have linux at all, so I 
>> think that I'll have to do with some dos or windows based program.
>>
>> Also, When installing fedora core 3 partition errors are much more common 
>> than when using fedora 2.
>>
>> Have any of you noticed this?
>>
>> /Kristoffer
>>
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Re: good partitioning program needed

[Willem van der Walt]

Hi,
The largest disk I had my hands on is an 80 gb disk.  I have used fdisk on 
that without any problems.
That was the fdisk provided with fedora 2, but I would be surprized if 
fdisk does not support big disks.
Does the linux kernel driver pick up the correct disk size?
I once had problems with an old bios that messed up disksize detection. 
This was long ago, but i recall that I had to provide some kernel 
parameter to tell linux to not rely on the bios, but rather do its own 
detection.
the current fdisk version I have is 2.12a on the one machine and 2.12r on 
the other.
Regards, Willem

  On Tue, 30 May 2006, Kristoffer Gustafsson wrote:

> Hello!
>
> My fdisk can only take about 50 gigabyte of my hard drive.
>
> Don't know really why.
>
> What version of fdisk are you using?
> Could you e-mail it please?
>
> /Kristoffer
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Willem van der Walt" <wvdwalt@csir.co.za>
> To: "Linux for blind general discussion" <blinux-list@redhat.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2006 9:10 AM
> Subject: Re: good partitioning program needed
>
>
>> I suggest you first install 98 and just make sure that you tell it to only 
>> use the first lets say 100 gb.
>> Then just install fedora and you could even let it do its own thing.
>> I would use fdisk.  Never had a problem with that.
>> Regards, Willem
>> 
>> 
>> On Tue, 30 May 2006, Kristoffer Gustafsson wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello!
>>> 
>>> I need a good program to partition my harddrive.
>>> I've gotten a 200 gb harddrive, and I want to install windows 98 and linux 
>>> on the same computer.
>>> 
>>> I'm using fedora core 3.
>>> So, what partitioning tools are good?
>>> 
>>> I've tried disk druid, but it doesn't seem very accesible o me.
>>> 
>>> Since I plan to install win 98 first I don't have linux at all, so I think 
>>> that I'll have to do with some dos or windows based program.
>>> 
>>> Also, When installing fedora core 3 partition errors are much more common 
>>> than when using fedora 2.
>>> 
>>> Have any of you noticed this?
>>> 
>>> /Kristoffer
>>> 
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Re: good partitioning program needed

[John Heim]

The fdisk program on a oralux 6.2 CD can fdisk an 80 Gb drive. I know, I've 
done it about a million times in my job. So if you need to repartition a 
drive, I would use oralux.
At 02:32 AM 5/30/2006, Kristoffer Gustafsson wrote:
>Hello!
>
>My fdisk can only take about 50 gigabyte of my hard drive.
>
>Don't know really why.
>
>What version of fdisk are you using?
>Could you e-mail it please?
>
>/Kristoffer
>----- Original Message ----- From: "Willem van der Walt" <wvdwalt@csir.co.za>
>To: "Linux for blind general discussion" <blinux-list@redhat.com>
>Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2006 9:10 AM
>Subject: Re: good partitioning program needed
>
>
>>I suggest you first install 98 and just make sure that you tell it to 
>>only use the first lets say 100 gb.
>>Then just install fedora and you could even let it do its own thing.
>>I would use fdisk.  Never had a problem with that.
>>Regards, Willem
>>
>>
>>On Tue, 30 May 2006, Kristoffer Gustafsson wrote:
>>
>>>Hello!
>>>
>>>I need a good program to partition my harddrive.
>>>I've gotten a 200 gb harddrive, and I want to install windows 98 and 
>>>linux on the same computer.
>>>
>>>I'm using fedora core 3.
>>>So, what partitioning tools are good?
>>>
>>>I've tried disk druid, but it doesn't seem very accesible o me.
>>>
>>>Since I plan to install win 98 first I don't have linux at all, so I 
>>>think that I'll have to do with some dos or windows based program.
>>>
>>>Also, When installing fedora core 3 partition errors are much more 
>>>common than when using fedora 2.
>>>
>>>Have any of you noticed this?
>>>
>>>/Kristoffer
>>
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Re: good partitioning program needed

[John Heim]

I've created about a million dual boot PCs over the past year or so and I 
always partition the HD with fdisk first. I boot with an oralux CD.

I don't know about Win 98 but I can tell you that Windows XP will slurp up 
the entire HD unless you create a second partition. ie. Just creating a 
partition for Windows that takes up half the disk won't do.
1. Boot oralux
2. run fdisk ex: fdisk /dev/hda
3. Create primary partition 1, change type to B (fat32), make active
4. Create partion 2, make type 83 (linux)
5. Save changes

Now you can install Windows into partion 1 and linux into partition 2.


At 07:00 PM 5/29/2006, Kristoffer Gustafsson wrote:
>Hello!
>
>I need a good program to partition my harddrive.
>I've gotten a 200 gb harddrive, and I want to install windows 98 and linux 
>on the same computer.
>
>I'm using fedora core 3.
>So, what partitioning tools are good?
>
>I've tried disk druid, but it doesn't seem very accesible o me.
>
>Since I plan to install win 98 first I don't have linux at all, so I think 
>that I'll have to do with some dos or windows based program.
>
>Also, When installing fedora core 3 partition errors are much more common 
>than when using fedora 2.
>
>Have any of you noticed this?
>
>/Kristoffer
>
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Re: good partitioning program needed

[Kristoffer Gustafsson]

Hello!
do you think that the fdisk can partition even the 200 gb drive I've gotten 
here?

/Kristoffer
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From: "John Heim" <jheim@wisc.edu>
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Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 5:24 PM
Subject: Re: good partitioning program needed


> I've created about a million dual boot PCs over the past year or so and I 
> always partition the HD with fdisk first. I boot with an oralux CD.
>
> I don't know about Win 98 but I can tell you that Windows XP will slurp up 
> the entire HD unless you create a second partition. ie. Just creating a 
> partition for Windows that takes up half the disk won't do.
> 1. Boot oralux
> 2. run fdisk ex: fdisk /dev/hda
> 3. Create primary partition 1, change type to B (fat32), make active
> 4. Create partion 2, make type 83 (linux)
> 5. Save changes
>
> Now you can install Windows into partion 1 and linux into partition 2.
>
>
> At 07:00 PM 5/29/2006, Kristoffer Gustafsson wrote:
>>Hello!
>>
>>I need a good program to partition my harddrive.
>>I've gotten a 200 gb harddrive, and I want to install windows 98 and linux 
>>on the same computer.
>>
>>I'm using fedora core 3.
>>So, what partitioning tools are good?
>>
>>I've tried disk druid, but it doesn't seem very accesible o me.
>>
>>Since I plan to install win 98 first I don't have linux at all, so I think 
>>that I'll have to do with some dos or windows based program.
>>
>>Also, When installing fedora core 3 partition errors are much more common 
>>than when using fedora 2.
>>
>>Have any of you noticed this?
>>
>>/Kristoffer
>>
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Re: good partitioning program needed

[Raul A. Gallegos]

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Kristoffer Gustafsson said the following on Wed, May 31, 2006 at 08:04:46PM +0200:
> do you think that the fdisk can partition even the 200 gb drive I've gotten 
> here?


Not if you want to use FAT32 because I think that FAT32 will only work 
up to 137 GB or something. MS Windows will tell you that you cannot do 
it for more than 32GB but that is not true.

- -- 
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		-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
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Re: good partitioning program needed

[Kristoffer Gustafsson]

Hello!

The thing I want is only to get about 30 gigabyte of space for windows, and 
the rest for linux.

So, the question I really was Asking was if fdisk will recognise a such 
large disk.

I will do only the windows partition. Then I will leave the rest of the 
space unpartitioned and let the installation program for linux do it's 
things.

Do you think that this wkill work for me?

/Kristoffer
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Subject: Re: good partitioning program needed


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> 08:04:46PM +0200:
>> do you think that the fdisk can partition even the 200 gb drive I've 
>> gotten
>> here?
>
>
> Not if you want to use FAT32 because I think that FAT32 will only work
> up to 137 GB or something. MS Windows will tell you that you cannot do
> it for more than 32GB but that is not true.
>
> - -- 
> Did you know that clones never use mirrors?
> -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
> Raul A. Gallegos ... IliwSsmc
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Re: good partitioning program needed

[Raul A. Gallegos]

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Kristoffer Gustafsson said the following on Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 12:14:13AM +0200:
> The thing I want is only to get about 30 gigabyte of space for windows, and 
> the rest for linux.


Yeah, that should work fine in that case. fdisk should recognize the 
larger hard drives.

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Re: good partitioning program needed

[Kristoffer Gustafsson]

Hello!

Ok. Sounds excelent.
I've heard from a person that there is a resque mode of fedora that I can 
use to get a prompt where I can invoke fdisk.
Can I get braille support during resque mode?
Could I for example type something like:

linux resque text brltty=vo,usb:,,se2

I've gotten a braille voyager, and since I'm from Sweden I'll use the 
swedish translation table.

/Kristoffer
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>> The thing I want is only to get about 30 gigabyte of space for windows, 
>> and
>> the rest for linux.
>
>
> Yeah, that should work fine in that case. fdisk should recognize the
> larger hard drives.
>
> - -- 
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> -- Jean Giraudoux
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Re: good partitioning program needed

[Willem van der Walt]

Yes, just remember to change the partition type.
Regards, Willem


On Thu, 1 Jun 2006, Kristoffer Gustafsson wrote:

> Hello!
>
> The thing I want is only to get about 30 gigabyte of space for windows, and 
> the rest for linux.
>
> So, the question I really was Asking was if fdisk will recognise a such large 
> disk.
>
> I will do only the windows partition. Then I will leave the rest of the space 
> unpartitioned and let the installation program for linux do it's things.
>
> Do you think that this wkill work for me?
>
> /Kristoffer
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Raul A. Gallegos" <raul@asmodean.net>
> To: <blinux-list@redhat.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 8:19 PM
> Subject: Re: good partitioning program needed
>
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>> Kristoffer Gustafsson said the following on Wed, May 31, 2006 at 08:04:46PM 
>> +0200:
>>> do you think that the fdisk can partition even the 200 gb drive I've 
>>> gotten
>>> here?
>> 
>> 
>> Not if you want to use FAT32 because I think that FAT32 will only work
>> up to 137 GB or something. MS Windows will tell you that you cannot do
>> it for more than 32GB but that is not true.
>> 
>> - -- Did you know that clones never use mirrors?
>> -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
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Re: good partitioning program needed

[John Heim]

I think so. Do you have some reason to believe it won't?   I would just try 
it. If you haven't already tried Oralux that's worth doing even if you 
didn't have the fdisk problem.

At 01:04 PM 5/31/2006, Kristoffer Gustafsson wrote:
>Hello!
>do you think that the fdisk can partition even the 200 gb drive I've 
>gotten here?

Re: good partitioning program needed

[John covici]

fdisk will do something, but not without destroying data!  Parted may
work, but not with ext3 file systems.  Ntfsresize will work if you are
careful for resizing ntfs systems.

on Thursday 06/01/2006 John Heim(jheim@wisc.edu) wrote
 > I think so. Do you have some reason to believe it won't?   I would just try 
 > it. If you haven't already tried Oralux that's worth doing even if you 
 > didn't have the fdisk problem.
 > 
 > At 01:04 PM 5/31/2006, Kristoffer Gustafsson wrote:
 > >Hello!
 > >do you think that the fdisk can partition even the 200 gb drive I've 
 > >gotten here?
 > 
 > 
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Re: good partitioning program needed

[John Heim]

At 01:19 PM 5/31/2006, Raul A. Gallegos wrote:
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>Kristoffer Gustafsson said the following on Wed, May 31, 2006 at 
>08:04:46PM +0200:
> > do you think that the fdisk can partition even the 200 gb drive I've 
> gotten
> > here?
>
>
>Not if you want to use FAT32 because I think that FAT32 will only work
>up to 137 GB or something. MS Windows will tell you that you cannot do
>it for more than 32GB but that is not true.


I've created plenty of 40 Gb FAT32 partitions on 80 Gb hard drives when 
I've set up dual boot machines.  Our standard is to make half the disk 
Windows and half linux. The biggest HDs I've delt with are 80 Gb though. 
I've probably created some Windows-only machines with 80 Gb partitions but 
I can't swear to that.

Re: good partitioning program needed

[John Heim]

I think fdisk will work. But, again,  Win XP will slurp up any 
non-partitioned space on the HD. I'm not sure Win 98 will do that but if I 
were you, I'd create 1 32 Gb partition for Windows and then create another 
partition on the rest just to be safe.

At 05:14 PM 5/31/2006, Kristoffer Gustafsson wrote:
>Hello!
>
>The thing I want is only to get about 30 gigabyte of space for windows, 
>and the rest for linux.
>
>So, the question I really was Asking was if fdisk will recognise a such 
>large disk.
>
>I will do only the windows partition. Then I will leave the rest of the 
>space unpartitioned and let the installation program for linux do it's things.
>
>Do you think that this wkill work for me?
>
>/Kristoffer
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>>Kristoffer Gustafsson said the following on Wed, May 31, 2006 at 
>>08:04:46PM +0200:
>>>do you think that the fdisk can partition even the 200 gb drive I've gotten
>>>here?
>>
>>
>>Not if you want to use FAT32 because I think that FAT32 will only work
>>up to 137 GB or something. MS Windows will tell you that you cannot do
>>it for more than 32GB but that is not true.
>>
>>- -- Did you know that clones never use mirrors?
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Re: good partitioning program needed

[Raul A. Gallegos]

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John Heim said the following on Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 11:09:02AM -0500:
> I've created plenty of 40 Gb FAT32 partitions on 80 Gb hard drives when 
> I've set up dual boot machines.  Our standard is to make half the disk 
> Windows and half linux. The biggest HDs I've delt with are 80 Gb though. 
> I've probably created some Windows-only machines with 80 Gb partitions but 
> I can't swear to that.

Yeah, I've done similar like that. But from Windows you cannot create a 
fat32 partition bigger than 32GB. Sucks but oh well. I'm definitely 
glad for fdisk from Linux.
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Re: good partitioning program needed

[Kristoffer Gustafsson]

Hello!

No, I know for sure that windows 98 will not take all my space, because I've 
done an unattended installation floppy, and have total control over  that 
installation.

I've tried oralux before, I didn't considered it until now, because I didn't 
knew of the new features in version 0.7
I'll use oralux 0.7 with speakup desktop to partition my drive, and then I 
will install fedora core 3.

/Kristoffer

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Heim" <jheim@wisc.edu>
To: "Linux for blind general discussion" <blinux-list@redhat.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2006 6:12 PM
Subject: Re: good partitioning program needed


>I think fdisk will work. But, again,  Win XP will slurp up any 
>non-partitioned space on the HD. I'm not sure Win 98 will do that but if I 
>were you, I'd create 1 32 Gb partition for Windows and then create another 
>partition on the rest just to be safe.
>
> At 05:14 PM 5/31/2006, Kristoffer Gustafsson wrote:
>>Hello!
>>
>>The thing I want is only to get about 30 gigabyte of space for windows, 
>>and the rest for linux.
>>
>>So, the question I really was Asking was if fdisk will recognise a such 
>>large disk.
>>
>>I will do only the windows partition. Then I will leave the rest of the 
>>space unpartitioned and let the installation program for linux do it's 
>>things.
>>
>>Do you think that this wkill work for me?
>>
>>/Kristoffer
>>----- Original Message ----- From: "Raul A. Gallegos" <raul@asmodean.net>
>>To: <blinux-list@redhat.com>
>>Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 8:19 PM
>>Subject: Re: good partitioning program needed
>>
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>>>Kristoffer Gustafsson said the following on Wed, May 31, 2006 at 
>>>08:04:46PM +0200:
>>>>do you think that the fdisk can partition even the 200 gb drive I've 
>>>>gotten
>>>>here?
>>>
>>>
>>>Not if you want to use FAT32 because I think that FAT32 will only work
>>>up to 137 GB or something. MS Windows will tell you that you cannot do
>>>it for more than 32GB but that is not true.
>>>
>>>- -- Did you know that clones never use mirrors?
>>>-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
>>>Raul A. Gallegos ... IliwSsmc
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internet coding question:

[charleseblack]

I am putting several graphics on a webpage.  I use the coding:

<img="dog.gif" alt="">

and a blank line appears.  Is it possible to get nothing to appear 
where as I wish to put several graphics, one after another, and I do 
not wish blank lines to appear.  

Any help would be appreciated.

Re: internet coding question:

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by charleseblack@sc.rr.com on 2006/06/01 at 11:51 -0500]

>I am putting several graphics on a webpage.  I use the coding:
>
><img="dog.gif" alt="">

IT should be: <img src="dog.gif" alt="[picture of a dog]">

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Re: internet coding question:

[charleseblack]

I don want "picture of a dog", I want nothing to appear or the abscense 
of something.

----- Original Message -----
From: Dave Mielke <dave@mielke.cc>
Date: Thursday, June 1, 2006 12:43 pm
Subject: Re: internet coding question:
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> [quoted lines by charleseblack@sc.rr.com on 2006/06/01 at 11:51 -0500]
> 
> >I am putting several graphics on a webpage.  I use the coding:
> >
> ><img="dog.gif" alt="">
> 
> IT should be: <img src="dog.gif" alt="[picture of a dog]">
> 
> -- 
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> Bible is the
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Re: internet coding question:

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by charleseblack@sc.rr.com on 2006/06/01 at 13:06 -0500]

>I don want "picture of a dog", I want nothing to appear or the abscense 
>of something.

Then just assign an empty string to the alt= attribute.

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Re: good partitioning program needed

[John Heim]

He said it is a new disk. There's no data on it to be saved.


At 11:08 AM 6/1/2006, John covici wrote:
>fdisk will do something, but not without destroying data!  Parted may
>work, but not with ext3 file systems.  Ntfsresize will work if you are
>careful for resizing ntfs systems.
>
>on Thursday 06/01/2006 John Heim(jheim@wisc.edu) wrote
>  > I think so. Do you have some reason to believe it won't?   I would 
> just try
>  > it. If you haven't already tried Oralux that's worth doing even if you
>  > didn't have the fdisk problem.
>  >
>  > At 01:04 PM 5/31/2006, Kristoffer Gustafsson wrote:
>  > >Hello!
>  > >do you think that the fdisk can partition even the 200 gb drive I've
>  > >gotten here?
>  >
>  >
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