How to create NTFS5 partition?

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I'm going to be installing a new 80GB Hard Drive real soon. I'm going to put Windows 98 and 2000 on there own partitions. 98 is going to have 5GBs and 2000 will have 10GBs, the rest is for storage.

The problem I'm having is choosing a partitioning tool. I need one that will partition NTFS5 file system. The problem is most of the ones I see need to run under windows. I need one to run from dos or floppy/CD self startup.

Any suggestions?
 
if you boot off the windows 2000 disk you can partition to your hearts content. Just tell it to install to the drive and it will ask you to choose a partition. It will also have options to add, delete and format partitions.

Partition magic is really good too. It is run through windows, but once you make the changes you want, you restart and it does it's thing before loading windows.
 
> if you boot off the windows 2000 disk you can partition to your hearts content. Just tell it to install to the drive and it will
> ask you to choose a partition. It will also have options to add, delete and format partitions.

Will I be able to partition a drive to a certain size (under NTFS5)?

> You should take a read of this first, you cant install windows 98 on NTFS

Yes I already know about this issue. I'm going to use Windows 98 by itself. Thats why I'm reserving 5GBs to that drive (under FAT32 of course). I'm more worryed about finding the right partitioning tool...
 
yes, you will delete all partitions and make new ones with whatever size you want and format them in NTFS or FAT32. So you can make a C: drive at the front in NTFS, a K: drive after it for windows 98 in FAT32 and a D: drive after that for documents in FAT32. Then tell windows to install to the C drive and let it do it's thing.

Once it's done, install 98 to the K drive

Now I did do this once, and I seem to remember windows 98 having some strange issues about where on the disk it was. I think you might need to actually have 98 on the first partition or it won't boot. Don't quote me on that as it's been almost 5 years since I've dual booted 2 windows OS's
 
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