Is there something similar to Fdisk in Vista?

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Win98 had a useful utility called Fdisk that would make logical drives, partition,set active, etc. Anything in Vista that can be put on a bootable CD that is as simple. My win98 floppy only recognizes about 129G. Thanks. First timer, don’t know if I did this correctly.

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Fetz:

According to Microsoft, there is no fdisk in Vista. That page has options for formatting and partitioning drives, however.

If you’re using a factory-installed version of Vista, I don’t know how you might fdisk /mbr, which is the most common use for fdisk these days, I think.

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You can make a disk from this that will do it.
http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/

I dont have a Vista disk handy but if I recall you can go into the recovery console and use diskpart to make a partition and then it will ask if you want to format.

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As mentioned in the link, posted by Timothy, you can use the Windows installation disk for these tasks, choosing Custom installation, “Drive options (advanced)”.

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Hard to use the Windows installation disk when your laptop has an OEM Vista on it. They don’t give you a disk any more.

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movrshakr:

Hard to use the Windows installation disk when your laptop has an OEM Vista on it. They don’t give you a disk any more.

I’ll make the easy assumption that this means you don’t have such a disk.

In that case, Pat Mcgroin’s answer seems to me to be your best bet.

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Hard to use the Windows installation disk when your laptop has an OEM Vista on it. They don’t give you a disk any more.

Well, it was a comment based on the information from the OP in this thread.

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Depending on the system, some will allow the creation of user disks.
It would depend on the particualr machine.

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If the Vista desktop is present, then you can use the Computer Management MMC, a graphical program that does the same thing as FDISK.
To begin, right-click on the Computer icon (desktop, explorer window, etc.), then select Manage. (enter the administrator password – if prompted)

When the Computer Management window appears, click on Disk Management (left column below Storage), then you will see all of your drives and partitions (right windows). You can right-click on a drive with empty space to create a new partition. Lots of other options are available. Due caution is strongly suggested, as you can delete your existing data/partitions/volumes.

If Vista has not been installed, then downloading a boot disk (as was mentioned in a prior post) that contains FDISK would work well.

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Was away for a few days. Thanks for all your suggestions. Will try them all. OEM version on separate partition, but I made data DVD copy(3 disks). Have a 500G disk that I tried to format on a 10 year old motherboard with win2000. That computer would only see 129G. Motherboard issues?(48 bit limitations?). You gave me lots of ideas to experiment with on the Vista computer. Thanks again.

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