okay all you tech guys out there.

harbingerofthefish · Post by **harbingerofthefish** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 12:09 am

I recieved some used computer stuff tonight. I dug through the cases and started with oulling a Hard Drive out of one. In stead of replacing the one I already have, I set my box up to run both of them. Maybe this will let me clean it up some. Programs on one and files on the other. Anyway. After switching the jumpers around I finally got it to boot up on the original hard drive, and recognize the new one. I formatted it and dropped a few mp3s on it to see if I could access them. I can.
heres how my riginal was set up

A: Floppy
C: Hard Dive
D: CD

now it's

A: Floppy
C: Original Hard drive
D: new hard drive
E: New hard drive
F: CD

so the question is, why does it see two new hard drives?

I had to fornat them both even though there is only one new hard drive.

??

danielmiller82 · Post by **danielmiller82** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 12:49 am

It might be because one of the drives has been formatted to show as two partitions. You can have multiple partitions on a single hard drive, that to the computer, look like and are treated as two separate drives.

harbingerofthefish · Post by **harbingerofthefish** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 1:04 am

no way to delete apost on here.

I rebooted for the umpteenth time and it's just the D drive now. so all's well.

gracias

Post by **snoopdog** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 8:44 pm

The new drive probably had multiple partitions, common in FAT32 partitions since there was a meg limit on older drives, normally 8 gig. Some OEM manufacturers also put restore partitions on drives that take up a small amount of room, those also use drive letters. If you run into it again under WinXP just go to Control Panel, then admin tools and looks for something called disk manager, there is a partition delete in there somewhere.

Phisher · Post by **Phisher** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 9:16 pm

Think he's running 98.

Joe

harbingerofthefish · Post by **harbingerofthefish** » Wed Aug 04, 2004 12:31 am

I am running 98. Everything seems to be working fine now. Only the 1 extra drive shows up. Do you know of a way to check for former paritions under 98? If you just view the drive properties are they supposed to show up?

tbmoore · Post by **tbmoore** » Wed Aug 04, 2004 6:07 am

run fdisk in win 98.. it will show what your partitions are and will allow you to remove or change....

Post by **snoopdog** » Wed Aug 04, 2004 7:06 am

Yep but want to add one thing, best way to run Fdisk is before you even see the 98 logo, before the boot process hit F8 and that will bring up your boot menu. Pick Command Prompt from the menu, then type Fdisk and Enter.

customreefs · Post by **customreefs** » Wed Aug 04, 2004 6:51 pm

I can give you Partition Magic 8 . It will take care of all your partition needs. Let me know if you want it, and I can get it to you.

Lee