Hi Kyle, On Sat, 20 Jan 2018 22:31:38 -0500 Kyle Nied wrote: > >What, out of all of these fdisk versions (minus >vanilla fdisk, of course), can you create multiple primary partitions?
More universal or newer disk tools may allow you to create multiple primary partitions. (for example my own 'DFSee' disk utility) However, there is a reason the older (DOS, Win98 etc) do not allow that. These older operating systems can not handle multiple visible primary partitions, they will fail on booting. Apart from using a logical for one of them (not always possible) the best way to handle multiple operating systems that way (each in a primary, aka C:) is to use a bootmanager that handles automatic hiding/showing. It will make the selected OS partition visible (for a FAT install, type 0x06) and hide the other primaries (changing 0x06 ones into 0x16). One bootmanager that will do that is the classic IBM BootManager that came with OS/2 (and eComstation, and ArcaOS-5) but that is not free ... I am sure there are others that can do this too >To >demonstrate what I am trying to do and show that I cannot do it with what I >have, here is a video of me booting off of a custom (no "RAMdrive") Windows >98 SE bootdisk image (found here: http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm ) on >a flash drive using a GOTEK USB floppy emulator (watch about it here: >https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taFP1J_lZBI&t= ) and trying to create a >secondary primary partition next to one that already exists ( >https://flic.kr/p/23AQgLb ). As you can see, it doesn't work, because a >"Primary DOS Partition Already Exists". Yes, Windows-98 knows it can't handle that :) Regards, JvW Jan van Wijk, author of DFSee; http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
