FDISK COMMAND

Purpose:  FDISK is used for:
          - creating DOS partitions (logical disks);
          - changing the active partition;
          - deleting DOS partitions (logical drives) as well as
            partitions of other operating systems;
          - displaying fixed disk partition and logical disks information;
          - selecting the next fixed disk (if the PC is equipped with
            several fixed disks).

Syntax:   FDISK [parameters]

Parameters:

/?, /H[ELP]     - help,
/B[LACK]        - display unused partitions,
/C[OMPATIBLE]   - create MS-DOS compatible logical drives only,
/I[GNORE]       - skip error messages on start,
/M[BR]          - update MBR (master boot record) and quit,
/S[ECTOR]       - create logical drives aligned by sector

     Running FDISK involves consecutive execution of the following
operations:

1. Inserting a DOS diskette into the drive A: and restarting the system.
   Once the system prompt has appeared, type:

   a>fdisk

2. The following main menu appears on the screen after pressing [Enter]:

 +------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 |FDisk Setup Utility for PTS-DOS by Andy Zorin (C) 1995 PhysTechSoft Ltd.|
 |                                                                        |
 |   Fixed disk drives total:   1                                         |
 |   Current fixed disk drive:  1                                         |
 |   Logical disk drives total: 3                                         |
 |                                                                        |
 |   Total disk size (MBytes):                       520.7                |
 |   Total disk free space (MBytes):                  11.7                |
 |   Max contiguous free space (MBytes):              11.7                |
 |                                                                        |
 |   Main menu                                                            |
 |                                                                        |
 |1. Create logical drive.                                                |
 |2. Set active partition.                                                |
 |3. View/Delete partitions.                                              |
 |4. Change current fixed disk drive.                                     |
 |5. Undo changes.                                                        |
 |6. Quit FDISK.                                                          |
 |                                                                        |
 |Enter your choice [6]                                                   |
 +------------------------------------------------------------------------+

     You should view information about partitions first. To do this, press
[3], then [Enter]. The View/Delete menu will apear on the screen.

                            View/Delete menu

     This menu contains information about all partitions on the fixed disk.
The following information about each partition is displayed:

"Partition"   the number of partition; the word "Primary", if information
              about the partition is in MBR;
"Drv"         a drive letter, which MS-DOS would assign to the logical
              drive;
"Status"      the word "Adwanc", if the partition is advanced active,
              the word "Active", if the partition is standard active.
"Type"        partition type ("DOS-12", DOS-16", "BigDOS" are logical DOS
              drives, "Extend" is an extended DOS partition containing
              other partitions etc.);
"MBytes"      partition size in MBytes;
"Notes"       error messages if there are any.

  +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
  |   Partition     Drv   Status     Type     MBytes    Notes             |
  |  1    Primary    C    Advanc    BigDOS     250.9                      |
  |  2    Primary    E              BigDOS     252.4                      |
  |  3    Primary                   Extend                                |
  |  4    Primary                    -  -                                 |
  |  5                               HPFS        1.8                      |
  |  6                              Extend                                |
  |  7               D              DOS-12       2.8                      |
  |                                                                       |
  |1. Next Page.                                                          |
  |2. Previous page.                                                      |
  |3. Set advanced active partition.                                      |
  |4. Delete partition.                                                   |
  |5. Delete all partitions.                                              |
  |6. Return to Main Menu.                                                |
  |                                                                       |
  |Enter your choice: [6]                                                 |
  +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+

     If there is not enough place for displaying information about all the
partitions, it may be divided into pages. You can scroll them using items
[1] and [2] in this menu.

     After viewing the information about disk partitions, you can execute
the needed operations:

     Create logical drive

     Set active partition

     Delete partition

     Change current fixed disk drive

     Undo changes

     Quit FDISK