eXtended FDisk
eXtended Fdisk , also briefly XFDisk , is under DOS executable utility , the hard disk partition and if necessary boot manager to install. It can also be used as a convenient replacement for Microsoft's fdisk . The XFDisk boot manager enables the creation of several independent primary boot partitions (drive C :), each of which is protected from one another because it is invisible. In contrast to other boot managers, the XFDisk boot manager does not occupy its own partition.
In principle, XFDisk can also partition hard disks with more than 137 GB, provided the BIOS of the computer supports the 48-bit addressing (BigLBA) that is required. In practice, XFDisk fails with large disks, from experience from 300 GB, but often when the program is started and crashes. That doesn't always happen and depends on whether partitions existed before the start. If XFDisk starts without any problems, the program below will work fine.
XFDisk was developed by Florian Painke and his successor Ulrich Müller under the GNU General Public License as a replacement for fdisk under Microsoft DOS and is free. With version 0.9.3 the development was stopped in 2001 and not resumed.
Web links
- eXtended FDisk (German)
- Microsoft: Fdisk does not recognize the total size of hard drives larger than 64 GB
- Reports in c't from 1998 and 1999: [2]
Individual evidence
- ↑ [1] , Tecchannel, October 15, 2003
- ↑ sourceforge.net