Partition

Greetings, can anyone help?

I have two 160 gig hard drives set up as a master and a slave, I am trying to remember the step by step process for using the fdisk process to partition the drives, for the life of me i can only remember part of it. why am i using this old fashioned process i hear you ask?

call me old fashioned but i know not of any other way that i can use and be able to install multiple OS. i did originally have millennium, XP and 2000 on the system till i lost the drives. yes i do know that one can use XP to partition the drive but then you are unable to install a earlier OS because it dominates.

A lot of my older files are not recognised by XP, vista and such the like, which is why if i don't have to i refuse to use them. i would deeply appreciate if someone has or remembers the skills of the FDISK process and would offer me a step by step. Not having my PC is causing withdrawal symptoms and i not sure how much i can take.

if there is something on the market outside of the FDISK process which will help me achieve the same goal, then i am willing to take that on board, if not then i prefer the above. anyone who really knows about computers and i am not disrespecting you guys who have the know how. but using the Fdisk process......PRICELSS

 

What types of files are you concerned about accessing? I can help you partion/multi boot- but it may not be necessary.

 

At present both disks were blank but i have managed to put win millenium on but the drives have not been partitioned properly. with regards to file access as long as i can replace millenium XP and 2000 on my PC which I use to choose from a menu on boot i will be more than happy. if i elaborate a bit more that may help..

i did originally have my drives partitioned from C to M all windows files were kept on C Drive, D Drive for games All my windows OS were kept and installed from E Drive which eliminated the search for a CD which at times you found scratched (brilliant idea to me anyway) the other drives i either allocated to family or kept my precious old files from i am now almost prepared to sell my granny to get this back in place. deeply appreciate any advice you can give.

Cheers

 

Not sure if you got this apologies if you have.

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At present both disks were blank but i have managed to put win millennium on but the drives have not been partitioned properly. with regards to file access as long as i can replace millennium XP and 2000 on my PC which I use to choose from a menu on boot i will be more than happy. if i elaborate a bit more that may help..

i did originally have my drives partitioned from C to M all windows files were kept on C Drive, D Drive for games All my windows OS were kept and installed from E Drive which eliminated the search for a CD which at times you found scratched (brilliant idea to me anyway) the other drives i either allocated to family or kept my precious old files from i am now almost prepared to sell my granny to get this back in place. deeply appreciate any advice you can give.

Cheers