Partition

[acsteve]

I am hoping someone/s will help me out with this. I was experimenting with partitioning this 3.2 gig seagate I have. I just plugged it up to this HP I have for trying out things. I made an ext partition thru fdisk. Then I made 2 ext logical drives D and E. When i made the ext partition I did it at 100%?? then made the 2 ext logical drives. I then formatted the drives and I could see them in the HP thru "My Computer", could save data to them and what ever. I then got a call from a customer of mine that wanted to know if I would put together a small system for him. I have everything I need for a little AMD 333 MHZ expect the mobo which I hate to admitt but blew the bios flash on about 6 mo's ago. I ordered the mobo its here and I have to get this together this weekend. The prolbem is I went to delete the drives thru fdisk, they deleted ok , then I rebooted and was going to format the seagate, however the HP no longer see the drive at all. Not listed in "My Computer" or any where else.
I will be studying more about partitioning as I obviously need to do but the problem is I am in a bit of a rush, and don't want to have to buy a hd as I will if I don't get this up.

Thanks for any help
Steve F.

[S.D.Willie]

what you could have done is just boot to a dos prompt with a start up disk and format(not fdisk) the seagate, then removed it from the machine. then you can just fdisk that drive on the machine you have to setup.

you removed the partitions from the seagate therefore you cant see the drive on your hp im guessing.

basically, just remove the drive and when you install the seagate in the new machine fdisk away. setup your partitions and make it to your liking. then just reboot with start up disk and format away and install windows or whatever.

heres a helper:

http://members.bellatlantic.net/~mrscary/fdisk.htm

SD

[acsteve]

Thank you for the info.

Turns out I got it. While I was waiting for a reply, it hit me to just fire the HP up with both drives like they were. Go to fdisk, slect 5 for changing to another disk. I did that and created a active partition on the seagate. The only prolbem now is I seem to have lost a gig but i am fixing to find it .

Thanks again

Steve F.