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You can'tassigntwo different drives the same letter. If you are having an hard drive or hard disk then you can make different partition and then assign each partition differently, but can not assign same letter for two or more drives.
You have to create the primary partition, which will create a drive with assigned letter for you. Or you can create the extended partition where you can create logical drives it can be more than 1.
Disk Administrator is the tool used in WindowsNT, 2000 and XP to prep and partition hard drives
If there is space left, you can use Partition Magic to reduce the 2000 partition and make room for the 98 partition. Just install into the unpartitioned space. To do a dual boot between the two, the easiest way is to use a program called Wingrub. The address is: https://sourceforge.net/projects/grub4dos . There are examples in the Wingrub program on how to set it up. The documentation examples say it can't be done, but it can. I did it and it works fine.
Fdisk. Windows 98 cd's are not bootable (for the most part) so in order to partition a new hard disk in preparation of a windows 98 install, you will need to make a boot floppy (or boot CD, or USB) which will enable you to partition and format the disk for windows install. Follow the link below for some disk images, utilities, and workarounds for the windows 98 bootdisk dilemma.
Your question isn't exactly clear. If you want to install Ubuntu natively onto a partition, you must format the partition or make a new one. It is quite possible to resize the XP partition and make a new one without losing data on the XP partition. Ubuntu already includes the tools to do this.
When shopping for hard drives you should make sure that it is compatible with your computer. You should also make sure it's big enough for your files.
It may be due to bad sectors that cannot be repaired, or depending on the format partition type FAT16, FAT32, or NTFS. It may be you have the physical HD partitioned into logical drives.
Viglen is the maker of several different products. All their products are computer based. They make hard drives for a desktop computer, different sized towers from small to tall. They also make server drives for large companies.
Several companies make hard drives. Seagate is the biggest name now, but Fujitsu, Toshiba and some smaller ones make drives also.
Requires that a special program be loaded into your boot sector. Try System Partitioner. Most operating systems allow you to partition your hard drive; you do not need additional software to partition your hard drive. TIP: Make the sizes markedly different so that it is easier to recognize which drive is which. Once you have partitioned your hard drive you effectively have two hard drives (or more if you want to). You can load one operating system on one drive and the second on the other.
As many as it can handle (how big it is). And adding partitions does not make more space. It's like putting a brick wall in the middle of a football field. :-P This is depend on your disk style, if your disk is MBR, you could only create four primary partitions or three primary partitions with one Extended partition (you could create many logical partition under extended partition) at most If your disk style is GPT, you could create as many as you can. here is an article about how to make partition from http://www.partition-magic-windows7.com/res/create-partition-windows7.html