What are the other drives in your computer assigned as far as drive
letters? ie:cd rom & anything like that....It sounds like there is a
conflict with drive letters for other drives....Your boot disk is set up
to assign a Ram drive....if you get just a plain ole win 98 boot disk
with F-disk I think that all your problems will go away providing there
isn't a conflict with other drives as i mentioned before...
Steve
>>> [log in to unmask] 12/14/01 18:51 PM >>>
I've been trying to slice and dice a 60gb hard drive into a few
partitions,
but I'm running into a problem. I'm using a Win98 setup/boot disk.
I've
been trying to make a 30gb primary dos partition and about a 25gb
extended
partition; then, I break the extended partition into two logical drives,
a
8gb D: drive and a 17gb E: drive. This leaves about 5gb of the hard
drive
unpartitioned for possible use by another operating system later.
Anyway, the problem is that after I've made the E: drive, using up all
the
remaining extended partition, I can go back to the fdisk menu and ask it
to
show me the current partition data and everything looks fine, ie C, D,
and E
all show up with the right amount of space in each. But after I exit
fdisk
and reboot (again using the Win98 boot disk), the E: partition doesn't
show
up. The boot disk goes ahead and assigns the ramdrive to E:, and I know
that I'm in trouble at that point. If I try to run fdisk after the boot
up
is finished, I get an error message about the fixed disk not being
readable.
I end up using an IBM Hard Drive Utility to wipe out the boot record on
the
drive, so I can start over. Running the IBM utility indicates that as
far
as the hard drive's functioning goes, there are no problems.
Any suggestions as to wy I can't get this E drive to stick?
I've also tried this without any unpartitioned drive space left over.
In
other words, the whole drive is taken up by the primary and the extended
partitions (with the extended partition still consisting of a D and a E
drive).
TIA,
John
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