Looking to Partition a harddrive

[Zylstra]

I had a system that seemed to kill perfectly good drives. After the second conked within a few hours of installation I just sent it to meet it's maker (and I don't mean Intel)!  

I have a CPU killing HDD, it's claimed 3 lives already I locked it in a box in my closet, for safty reasons. LOL

Was it a CPU, or a motherboard?
I plan on taking the CPU out of the 999MHz Gateway computer (the one that keeps crashing) and putting it into a GOOD computer, with good hardware etc...

[Zylstra]

So, let me get this fact correct first...
If I run FDISK, then I will loose ALL information on both sides of the partititioned harddrive?

[GX1_Man]

Fdisk allows you to manage partitions. You can delete or create them. If you do not touch an existing partition it is safe, although strange things can happen if you delete C and leave the other(s) intact. Please restate again how the system is now and how you want it to end up and what OS you are going to use on it.

Once the partitions are set, all the resulting drives - primary and logical - will have to be formatted to be usable.

Hint: If you delete a partition to try to rearrange things that data is gone forever for all practical purposes.

[Zylstra]

I have Windows 98SE.
I would like to use FDISK to make a 1-3GB partition on drive C
If I use FDISK on C, will it format and loose all data on C?

[Fed]

I have used fips to partition a HDD that had 98SE on it with success.
http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/people/chaffee/fips/fips.doc

[GX1_Man]

I have Windows 98SE.
I would like to use FDISK to make a 1-3GB partition on drive C
If I use FDISK on C, will it format and loose all data on C?

If you delete an existing partition all data there is deleted. Partitioning and formatting are two necessary steps to make usable disk space.

[fatali]

If you still need partitioning, read this article about GParted live, it's free. http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/04/25/1917228 All you need is a Burner and software that can burn ISO images to disk. (Nero works well and is sometimes shipped with burners, and then download the ISO and burn it.  I used it to partition my drive for use with the Windows Vista Beta release, did the job nicely.