Trying to make 3 partitions on an 80gig drive

[sproggy]

Hi, I wonder if anyone remebers about setting up new drives in 98.

I'm trying to make 4gig, 4gig, and 72gig partitions on an 80gig disk.

I'm not too confident that I've got my partitions set up right, but I've read both the CT tutorial and the Microsoft help and followed the procedures best I can.

I'm now trying to format the 3 partitions. The first one went fine I've got a C: drive on there I think. Now I'm getting Format not supported on drive D: when I'm trying to format the next partition. :hmm:

Any idea where I'm going wrong please?

[sproggy]

Still trying...

Is it right that I need 1 primary partition and 2 extended ones. Or do Logical Drives come into this somehow?

Any help gratefully appreciated. ;)

[sproggy]

Still trying...

Right, I've tried creating primary, logical, then extended partitions. That didn't seem to work.:hmm:

So I guess the only way left is create a primary, then an extended drive, then create a logical drive within the extended drive. Does this sound right please?

[sproggy]

I think I've done it.

I did one primary, then an extended drive. Then put 2 logical drives in the extended drive.

They appear in windows with the right sizes, so hopefully all is well.

[Brainscan701]

Hi Sproggy,

Here is how it goes.

First your first partition will be called the Primary Dos Partition. You got that part okay.

Now the tricky part. If you were just going to put one partiton on one drive you could end there.

But because you aren't, you have to have an extended partition. In your case, if the first (Primary) partition is 4GB the Extended Partition would be 76GB, or the remaining size of the disk.

Now, because you want two partitions within your new Extended Dos Partition, each drive will have a new name. The new name is called the "Logical Disk Drive." In you case the first will be for 4Gb and the remainder will be for 72GB. That is because 4+72 will be 76. 76 is the remaing size of your disk after the Primary one, 4GB is used up.

So if your Primary Dos Partiton is called C, you logical disk drives will be called D and E. D and E are located in the Extended Dos partition. You create the Extended Dos partion after you create the Primary dos Partion and before you create the Logical Disk Drives. The Logical Disk Drives are part of the Extended Dos Partition.


This process is called Fdisking. You can find out more about it here:

http://www.hardwarehell.com/fdisk.htm

Or you can do an internet search by yourself on the subject. You need to understand Fdisking before you can do it. I suggest you study up on it before you continue.

Remember after you fdisk you have to format and scandisk.:D

Good luck,
Brainy:rotflmao:

[sproggy]

Hi Sproggy,

Here is how it goes. That's really cool of you being so helpful buddy. :cool:

But when I said, 'I think I've done it', I'd actually done it.


The microsoft website was hopeless. It was pretty clear for putting 1 or 2 partitions on a drive, but it's only advice for more that 2 was, 'repeat step 7', which turned out to be rubbish! :laugh:


I'm now the proud owner of a 4 drive PC, it's dedicated purely to music, djing and production. :cool:

A 4gig drive for software, another 4gig just for audio temp files, 72gig for mp3s, and the original 20gig drive just for wav processing and producion files. My PC now runs like the proverbial off a shovel and the software drive defrags in record time.

Did I mention I'm a happy man? :laugh:

[Brainscan701]

That's really cool of you being so helpful buddy. :cool:

But when I said, 'I think I've done it', I'd actually done it.


The microsoft website was hopeless. It was pretty clear for putting 1 or 2 partitions on a drive, but it's only advice for more that 2 was, 'repeat step 7', which turned out to be rubbish! :laugh:


I'm now the proud owner of a 4 drive PC, it's dedicated purely to music, djing and production. :cool:

A 4gig drive for software, another 4gig just for audio temp files, 72gig for mp3s, and the original 20gig drive just for wav processing and producion files. My PC now runs like the proverbial off a shovel and the software drive defrags in record time.

Did I mention I'm a happy man? :laugh:

Glad to hear it...:rotflmao::D