H
Higgins
I'm trying to install a new 40Gb hard drive as a 2nd drive in a
removable caddy in my office desktop and having a hell of a time
getting it partitioned properly. So far, I've been able to get it
recognized as a drive with one 2GB partition (to which I actually
wrote some files), then as a drive with one 8gb partition (which also
took some files), but not really as a 40GB drive.
The desktop machine is running Windows NT 4.0. I've been fdisking and
formatting using the Win 98 bootdisk from bootdisk.com. I've tried
lots of iterations. (e.g., one primary, active partition; one 8Gb
primary, active partition plus one 32gb extended partition.)
Even when WinNT doesn't see the whole drive and its partitions,
Partition Magic always seems to recognize my configuration the way I
*think* I've done it. But PM 6 doesn't seem to like what I've been
doing and at one point was giving me Error 702, "drive geometry
errors".
After studying the Fdisk guide on Radified, the latest iteration was
five 8gb Fat 32 partitions, one primary and active, one extended with
four logical partitions. My NT machine won't recognize that setup at
all.
I have been formatting as Fat32 because I want to use this drive as a
backup that I can throw into any Windows machine, including a win 98
desktop I have at home. And perhaps, some emergency will require me to
put an OS on it and use it as a primary drive. But I'm clearly in over
my head. What should I be doing????
removable caddy in my office desktop and having a hell of a time
getting it partitioned properly. So far, I've been able to get it
recognized as a drive with one 2GB partition (to which I actually
wrote some files), then as a drive with one 8gb partition (which also
took some files), but not really as a 40GB drive.
The desktop machine is running Windows NT 4.0. I've been fdisking and
formatting using the Win 98 bootdisk from bootdisk.com. I've tried
lots of iterations. (e.g., one primary, active partition; one 8Gb
primary, active partition plus one 32gb extended partition.)
Even when WinNT doesn't see the whole drive and its partitions,
Partition Magic always seems to recognize my configuration the way I
*think* I've done it. But PM 6 doesn't seem to like what I've been
doing and at one point was giving me Error 702, "drive geometry
errors".
After studying the Fdisk guide on Radified, the latest iteration was
five 8gb Fat 32 partitions, one primary and active, one extended with
four logical partitions. My NT machine won't recognize that setup at
all.
I have been formatting as Fat32 because I want to use this drive as a
backup that I can throw into any Windows machine, including a win 98
desktop I have at home. And perhaps, some emergency will require me to
put an OS on it and use it as a primary drive. But I'm clearly in over
my head. What should I be doing????