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Can't see partitions on an external drive.
From: Paul Zin
, October 31, 2004 (No similar response was found regarding formatting/partitioning an external drive with ME.) To: Microsoft newsgroups, windows ME hardware http://support.microsoft.com/newsgroups/?pr=6321 Topic: Can't see partitions on an external drive. QUESTION: Windows ME can only show the directory of the 1st partition on a Maxtor Fire Wire drive and can't see the other 2 partitions. Is there any way to get it to recognize all 3 partitions? Do I re-partition with FDISK or use Partition Magic 8, or something else, or is the problem unfixable? THE DETAILS: Partition 1 is 50 GB, #2 is 50 GB, and #3 is 100 GB; which is visible with Partition Magic 8, and Maxtor's MaxBlast3win.exe which created the partitions. The Windows ME directory calls the 1st partition: DISK4_VOL2 (E but doesn't recognize any partitions F or G; nor volumes 3 or 4; nor DISK5, etc. Fdisk does see the three FAT32 partitions E, F & G, however as: 5 GB, 5 GB, & 10 GB; 1/10 the actual size. But then Fdisk in another display does show the logical drives F & H as: 50 GB and 100 GB which may make much better sense; while drive E the 1st 50 GB partition does actually somehow get recognized by Windows; where it does function OK. So how could Windows ME work with the last 2 partitions, since all the information is actually in the operating system? (Naturally I imagine we will eventually all have to switch to Linux to keep our computers going at all. Why would paid programmers make Windows into a nightmare for its users trying to accomplish fairly trivial tasks?) Thanks for any suggestions or references. |
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