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justiceisblind 09-08-2002 10:37 PM

Need to partiton, don't know how to boot into dos with XP
 
I want to install Red Hat 7.3 on my IBM Thinkpad, but there's no floppy drive! I need to boot into dos to partition my HDD with FIPS, but I can't remember how to do it, and I have hardly any XP experience, is it even possible to boot to a dos prompt?? If so, how?? Your help would be greatly, and I mean greatly appreciated!

neo77777 09-09-2002 12:30 AM

Can you boot from a CD? :confused:

MasterC 09-09-2002 12:46 AM

In w2k if you press F8 during startup you can choose to go to command prompt, it might be something similar in XP.

justiceisblind 09-09-2002 08:22 AM

yes, I can boot from my Red Hat Instal CD, but partitioning fails.

Punkass 09-09-2002 02:35 PM

Hi,

U could try and get your hands on a program called partition magic. http://www.powerquest.com/partitionmagic/

with that program u can partition your drive without losing data and it is XP compatible.

another programm with a free demo version http://www.partition-manager.com/n_pm_main.htm

justiceisblind 09-09-2002 04:34 PM

I had to bend over and take the pounding for Partition Magic, but hell, it worked great.


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