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Part I: Getting Your Feet Wet
3. If you see the large disk prompt, choose Y at this prompt and then
press Enter.
The FDISK menu options appear, as shown in Figure 2-4.
Figure 2-4:
FDISK menu
options.
4. Display the current drive-partition information.
If you have more than one hard drive in your computer, FDISK displays
a fifth menu choice so you can change between disks.
Here’s how to use the fifth menu choice to change to another disk:
a. Type 5 and press Enter.
The FDISK screen displays all the hard drives in your system.
b. Type the number of the disk you want and then press Enter.
The top of the FDISK menu screen displays the number of the
drive that FDISK is working with.
5. To display partition information for the disk number displayed, type 4
and press Enter.
Figure 2-5 shows an example of the Display Partition Information screen
within FDISK.
Figure 2-5 indicates that no free, unallocated disk space is available on
the drive. If the disk had unpartitioned space, FDISK would display how
much.
If you have an extended partition on the disk, you’ll have to dig deeper.