After you create a partion whether it be primary or extended /w logical
drives in fdisk you must shut down and and reboot using your boot disk.
Then you must format all newly created drives (physical and logical) in
order for your system to be able to recognize and register these
partitions/drives within for use.
If you look in fdisk at the E: drive more than likely in format it states
unknown. If however, it is formatted correctly and recognized as either fat
16 or 32 then you will probably have to do an fdisk /mbr to re-create your
master boot record on your disk 1. I would suggest you go to
http://www.freepctech.com/pc/001/001.shtml#2
and carefully review this page and it's links before doing this though.
Normally nothing bad will happen, however, when you are changing or
re-creating your MBR this is something usually done by experts. So be
warned..
Barry Clark
MCSE
----- Original Message -----
From: "Marshall Fortescue" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, June 28, 2002 4:57 AM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] HARD: Trouble formating disk
> More on this issue:
>
> I was able to get my disk formated using the delpart utility and the
maxtor
> utilities.
>
> However, in doing this, I partitioned my C drive into 2 20G partitions
> (Computer called them C and E, with D drive being my 2nd HD). Now, I only
> see the C (20G) and D(20G), but I don't see the E (2nd partition of the
40G
> HD). In fdisk, I see it and it looks healthy and as if it will show up in
> WinME. I hate to ask, but did I forget an important step?
>
> TIA
> Marshall
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fortescue, Marshall
> Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 4:10 PM
> To: 'Rick Lindstrom'; 'PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion
List'
> Cc: Fortescue, Marshall
> Subject: RE: [PCBUILD] HARD: Trouble formating disk
>
>
> Thanks for the advice for delpart.exe, Zap, and Wipe....I ended up trying
> delpart.exe...It did seem to work, but I still have garbage on the drive.
I
> will try the maxtor disk utilities. If nothing works, I'll trying driving
> my car over it!
>
> Thanks again
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rick Lindstrom [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 5:23 PM
> To: PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List
> Cc: Marshall Fortescue
> Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] HARD: Trouble formating disk
>
>
> At 08:45 AM 6/19/2002 -0400, Marshall Fortescue wrote:
> >I have a computer running XP/WinME, 256M, 366MgHz....
> >
> >I have a second HD that has been broken up into 4 partitions. I am
> >unable to format the drive (wipe everything off and start over) using
> >Partition Magic, Windows Format from the explorer, and fdisk/format
> >from DOS.
> (ETC)
>
> There is a DOS utility called "delpart.exe" that I believe originally came
> from one of the early NT4.0 versions. I have used it a few times on
> partitions that nothing else would touch, and it killed them every time.
>
> It is available for free download here:
>
> http://hercules.lss.ksu.edu/download/MSSTUFF/index.htm
>
> HTH-
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Rick Lindstrom
> <[log in to unmask]>
> Tallahassee, FL. USA
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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