Howard: fdisk can only create 2 partitions. if you want 3 drives you must create a primary partition and an exttennded partition. then create and forrmat 2 logical drives in your extended partition. hope this helps Rob ----- Original Message ----- From: Howard <bint@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: triadtechtalk <triadtechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 1:38 PM Subject: [triadtechtalk] This message didn't go through??? > I am resending this message as it was returned as "undelivered". I am sure it went through, but will resend it anyway. > > Howard > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Howard <bint@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > > I spent most of today using FDisk and format to wipe my hard drive clean and > start over, but I only have win98SE up and running. Not much on it either, > but the anti virus is running and updated today. > > (I'm answering my own mail! Something is definitely wrong!!) > > Problem: Yesterday, I used Fdisk to partition my 20Gig hard drive into 3 > drives .. C,D and ?. For some reason, I now have drive C (7gig), drive D > (6gig) and no other drive showing in My Computer or anywhere else. I know I > did something wrong using Fdisk as I never did see that I was offered to > name the 3rd drive (also 6Gig). I formatted the 2 drives ( C & D ) and > reinstalled win98SE on drive C (the active partition). Can someone help with > instructions to locate, name and format the 3rd drive? I admit to knowing > very little about Fdisk and I'm sure that's where the problem lies. I do not > want to add more to my C drive in case it has to be formatted again and I > certainly won't install win2K on D until I can solve this dilema. For those > of you who know how to do this .... please help (and NO I don't have > Partition Magic). > > Thank you ... > > Howard > bint@xxxxxxxxxxxx > > > > > > > UNSUBSCRIBE by sending email to triadtechtalk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with unsubscribe in the Subject field. > > To VIEW/CHANGE your subscription status go to //www.freelists.org/webpage/triadtechtalk > UNSUBSCRIBE by sending email to triadtechtalk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with unsubscribe in the Subject field. To VIEW/CHANGE your subscription status go to //www.freelists.org/webpage/triadtechtalk