FDISK/MBR -how to specify drive?

[Marc_G]

Hi folks-

I've occasionally needed to FDISK/MBR a hard drive. These days when I boot DOS for utility purposes it's from a USB key that mounts as a "hard drive" assigned to C:.

From this environment, if I issue the FDISK/MBR command, it performs the operation on the USB key instead of the real hard drive in the computer. I'm sure there is a parameter to use; I just haven't come across it.

Can anyone straighten me out?

Another thing: is there any reason NOT to use the FDISK from Win98 DOS on an XP system? I'm trying to avoid the need to ever boot the XP CD.

Thanks

Marc

[JHEM]

FDISK/MBR D:\

Regards,

James

[Marc_G]

Thanks James-

Does this assume that an unmounted drive (such as an unpartitioned/unformatted or NTFS so not seen in DOS) will just be refered to as "D:\" ?

[JHEM]

Whatever HD is next in the DOS logical hierarchy from the BOOT drive will be D:, then E: for your optical drive, etc.

So if you BOOT from a USB device that is recognized as C: then the HD in the normal primary slot will be D: by default as long as the BIOS recognizes it.

Regards,

James

[Marc_G]

Thanks James. Got it.