Karen wrote:
>i discovered some strange things,
>first i have a d drive, not formated, apparently, as when i try
>to say do a directory, it says "drivenot ready," however, if i
>do a "d:" i can get there with no affects.
This drive hasn't been formated yet (that's also why R Wesley Stapleton
couldn't see his drive in Windows). "format d:" will do the trick.
>2, after seeing this, i took a look at fdisk
>according to fdisk, i have a primary partition and an extended
>one with the following logical drive
>d: unknown 126mg, 33%
>
>that is paraphrased,
>and the real kicker?
>
>the remaining size of the extended partition is 1508 mg or so.
>
>what is all this?
This is the extended partition that you need to create logical partitions
of (such as d: e: f: and so forth).
>last try through,i thought we could not use the drive entirely.
I'll be honest I haven't kept up with your troubles, but I really can't see
what the problem should be.
How to add a new harddrive to your system:
1 Put it physically in (insert cables, make sure it's set correctly for
master-slave)
2 Use FDISK to create:
a A primary partition
b An extended partition (use all that you can)
c Logical partitions in the extended partitions (until no more can be made)
3 Format all the new drives
4 Install the OS of your choice
As I see it you have made it to 2b (and made one logic partition). I will
not say the exact numbers in FDISK (too risky) but you should go into the
alternative "create new logical drive" or something like that.
I suggest around 500MB drives for FAT16, others will suggest other values
(from 128 to 2048).
>i mean, if i tried to let fdisk play with the rest of the extend
>partition, what would happen?
Nothing bad at all. In fact I enourage you to use the rest. It can NOT use
more than you have (unless there's a BIOS problem and that's so unlikely it
can be ignored - especially since you have backups).
//Bernie
http://bernie.arachne.cz/ DOS programs, Star Wars ...
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