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XP COMMAND DESCRIPTION
APPEND ARP ASSOC AT ATTRIB BREAK CACLS CALL CD
CHCP CHDIR CHKDSK CHKNTFS CLS CMD COLOR COMMAND COMP
COMPACT CONTROL CONVERT COPY DATE DEBUG DEL DELTREE DIR 2
DIR ... DISKCOMP DISKCOPY DOSKEY ECHO EDIT EDLIN ERASE EXIT
EXPAND FC FDISK FIND FOR FORMAT FTP GRAFTABL HELP
IPCONFIG LABEL LOADFIX MD MEM MKDIR MODE MORE MOVE
MSCDEX NBTSTAT NET NETSTAT NLSFUNC NSLOOKUP PATH PATHPING PAUSE
PING PRINT PROMPT RD REN RENAME RMDIR ROUTE SET
SETVER SHARE SHUTDOWN SORT SUBST TIME TREE TYPE UNLOCK
VER VERIFY VOL XCOPY





FDISK /MBR Recreates the Master Boot Record See CH000175 for additional information. Configures a hard disk for use with MS-DOS.
      ...or...  FDISK /PRI  ...or...  FDISK /EXT  ...or...  FDISK /LOG  ...or...  FDISK [/STATUS] /X  ...or...  
                 FDISK /Q -- Prevents fdisk from booting the system automatically after exiting fdisk.  ...or...  
                 FDISK /STATUS -- Shows you the current status of your hard drives.

/STATUS Displays partition information.
/X Ignores extended disk-access support (will not use LBA support). Use this switch if you receive one of the following symptoms:
Unable to access a drive from DOS versions prior to 7.
Disk access messages .
Stack overflow messages.
High amounts of data corruption.
Extra drive letters

SECRET FDISK SWITCHES

FDISK /MBR - Command used to rewrite the Master Boot Record. See CH000175 for additional information.
FDISK /CMBR <DISK> - Recreate Master Boot Record on specified disk. Performs the same functions as FDISK /MBR except can be used on other disk drives.
FDISK 1/PRI:100 - Command line to create a 100 meg DOS partition on hard drive 1.
FDISK 1/EXT:500 - Command line to create a 500 meg extended DOS partition on hard drive 1.
FDISK 1/LOG:250 - Command line to create a 250 logical drives.
FDISK /PARTN - Saves the partition to a file called PARTSAV.FIL
FDISK /Q - Prevents fdisk from booting the system automatically after exiting fdisk.
FDISK /STATUS - Shows you the current status of your hard drives.
FDISK /ACTOK - Makes FDISK not check the disk integrity allowing the drives to be created faster.
FDISK /FPRMT - Will not get the prompt for FAT32 support, in addition allows FDISK to be forced into using FAT32 on drives smaller then 540MB (by default FDISK will not use FAT32 on any drive smaller then 540MB). Finally this command can only be used with FDISK that supports FAT32.

EXAMPLES

Fdisk - This would get you into the fdisk option screen which you can see in the fdisk simulation, also keep in mind when deleting a partitions ANYTHING that is on that partition of the hard drive will be ERASED, also once the partition is delete it will not be redetected until you format that partition, so if you delete your primary partition which is the c: drive you will not be able to put anything on that drive or even read from that drive until it is formatted.

See our fdisk simulation for additional information and examples.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

FDISK SCRIPT FILE - Fdisk has the capability of being ran from an external file allowing you to quickly create and delete partitions through Fdisk. To do this create a file from the DOS edit command. The following are the steps required in generating this file.

Edit fdisk.scr - This will place you within the edit screen within this screen you will enter the commands you wish to be ran in fdisk. For example if you wish to run fdisk and display the partition information you would enter 4.

Because Fdisk requires you to press enter after you have chosen a selection you will need to press Ctrl + P and then press Ctrl + M which will create a music symbol which acts as a carriage return.

If you need to press the esc key you would use Ctrl + P and then press esc which would be represented as a backwards arrow.

When doing the commands to run FDISK all these must be on one line do not place each command on separate lines.

Once you have created the script file you can then type fdisk < fdisk.scr which will then execute the script file. If the script file encounters an error during its process you will need to recreate the script file where the mistake occurred.

APPEND ARP ASSOC AT ATTRIB BREAK CACLS CALL CD
CHCP CHDIR CHKDSK CHKNTFS CLS CMD COLOR COMMAND COMP
COMPACT CONTROL CONVERT COPY DATE DEBUG DEL DELTREE DIR 2
DIR ... DISKCOMP DISKCOPY DOSKEY ECHO EDIT EDLIN ERASE EXIT
EXPAND FC FDISK FIND FOR FORMAT FTP GRAFTABL HELP
IPCONFIG LABEL LOADFIX MD MEM MKDIR MODE MORE MOVE
MSCDEX NBTSTAT NET NETSTAT NLSFUNC NSLOOKUP PATH PATHPING PAUSE
PING PRINT PROMPT RD REN RENAME RMDIR ROUTE SET
SETVER SHARE SHUTDOWN SORT SUBST TIME TREE TYPE UNLOCK
VER VERIFY VOL XCOPY





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