----- Original Message -----
From: "A&C Thompson"
Subject: [PCBUILD] New hdd & fdisk

Excerpt from original message: > So far everything is going fine except that I don't see the old
drive when I run fdisk.


OK, now that may have seemed like a silly question ( now that I know the answer - thanks Volkard ),
but it was my first ever install of a new hdd and using fdisk. Now hopefully my next questions
aren't too dumb:

Since the new drive (40gig) contains the OS, how should I set up the old 60gig drive? All I want to
do is partition the drive into small logical drives.

1.) Must I create a primary dos partition on the 60gig, if so, how big is necessary? ( Fat32 won't
support smaller than 512 MB - is that correct, and does that mean it must be at least that big? ) It
already contains a primary dos partition - there are no other partitions - that partition uses the
entire 60 gigs.

2.) Must I create an extended dos partition just so I can create logical drives within it, or can I
create logical drives within the primary dos partition? Do I leave the primary dos partition on the
40gig drive set to active? Do I need an active partition on the 60gig? If so, which?

3.) How will the drive letters be affected - right now the new drive contains C, E, F, G, & H and
the old drive is D.

Hypothetically, what would happen to my cdrom and dvd drive letters if I used all the letters for
logical partitions?

4.) Finally, can I set the drive letters for my cdrom and dvd drives as I want them? If so, how?

I'm sure some of you are probably shaking your head, wondering how someone can do the hard stuff,
yet be brain-dead on the easy stuff, but I really am competent enough to be dangerous ;-)

Thanks in advance

Al Thompson

----Original message----

> Dear collective list wit,
>
> I successfully installed a new 40gig WD hard drive, set it as master, and the old 60gig (Maxtor)
is
> now the slave. Fdisked, partitioned, and formatted the new drive, and WinME installed fine. So far
> everything is going fine except that I don't see the old drive when I run fdisk.
>
> The old drive was formatted from dos, no problem. It shows up in device manager, and is totally
> accessible from Windows. It shows during the boot menu and the Bios seems (?) to know all about
it.

> Now, the only thing I can't figure out is how to fdisk & partition the 60gig.
>
> INFO:
> System:  HP 1 Ghz Athlon
> The old 60gig is now D:\ and contains only restore folder and recycle bin.
> WinME is on C:\
> The new drive contains the primary dos partition C:\ , which I have set active, and an extended
dos
> partition with 4 logical drives E,F,G, & H - all accessible from Windows.
> All are fat32.
> The instructions about master/slave jumpers on the old drive are unclear, so I have no jumper on
it.
>
> Thanx in advance for your expert advice.
>
> Al Thompson

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