----- 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 PCBUILD's List Owners: Bob Wright<[log in to unmask]> Drew Dunn<[log in to unmask]>