A Windows 98 & ME forum. Win98banter

If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below.

Go Back   Home » Win98banter forum » Windows 98 » Setup & Installation
Site Map Home Authors List Search Today's Posts Mark Forums Read Web Partners

Where's drive D gone? Advice?



 
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
  #1  
Old November 26th 08, 12:35 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.setup
poachedeggs
External Usenet User
 
Posts: 25
Default Where's drive D gone? Advice?

Hello. I've just reinstalled 98 on an old Toshiba laptop. Even
before the last installation was gone there'd been a drive D, the hard
drive in some way partitioned, something I don't completely understand
on that particular machine. This is a 4 gig machine, but C is 2047
mbytes. Where has the rest gone and how do I get it back, better
still, could I incorporate it into C or at least access it from
Windows again? I've used fdisk from my boot floppy and see that C
seems to be partitioned into 1 and 2, 1 has a status of A, Pri Dos, 2
is Ext Dos (1862 mbytes).

Having just been through the reinstallation palaver, can I sort this
out, entirely or in part, without wiping the hard drive? (Don't say
no...)

There are 4 options under Fdisk options - do options 1 or 3 come into
this (create dos partition or ligical dos drive & delete partition or
logical dos drive)

I'd hoped when I wiped C and reinstalled that the full 4 gig would be
visible.

At the moment D seems to be the ramdrive my boot disk creates, but I'm
sure this was once half the hard drive, although D also seems to be a
'logical dos drive'.

E is the CD drive, A the floppy. (I don't know quite enough about
this to know if you need telling this.)

If someone could describe what I need to do in steps, preferably
without downloading anything else, that'd be great. Thanks in
advance.

p.s. Could I split D then and put a small version of Linux on it?
  #2  
Old November 27th 08, 01:14 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.setup
Ron Badour[_2_]
External Usenet User
 
Posts: 21
Default Where's drive D gone? Advice?

Use your floppy disk to create a logical partition inside the extended
partition. Use all the available space.

--
Regards

Ron Badour
MS MVP
Windows Desktop Experience


"poachedeggs" wrote in message
...
Hello. I've just reinstalled 98 on an old Toshiba laptop. Even
before the last installation was gone there'd been a drive D, the hard
drive in some way partitioned, something I don't completely understand
on that particular machine. This is a 4 gig machine, but C is 2047
mbytes. Where has the rest gone and how do I get it back, better
still, could I incorporate it into C or at least access it from
Windows again? I've used fdisk from my boot floppy and see that C
seems to be partitioned into 1 and 2, 1 has a status of A, Pri Dos, 2
is Ext Dos (1862 mbytes).

Having just been through the reinstallation palaver, can I sort this
out, entirely or in part, without wiping the hard drive? (Don't say
no...)

There are 4 options under Fdisk options - do options 1 or 3 come into
this (create dos partition or ligical dos drive & delete partition or
logical dos drive)

I'd hoped when I wiped C and reinstalled that the full 4 gig would be
visible.

At the moment D seems to be the ramdrive my boot disk creates, but I'm
sure this was once half the hard drive, although D also seems to be a
'logical dos drive'.

E is the CD drive, A the floppy. (I don't know quite enough about
this to know if you need telling this.)

If someone could describe what I need to do in steps, preferably
without downloading anything else, that'd be great. Thanks in
advance.

p.s. Could I split D then and put a small version of Linux on it?



  #3  
Old November 27th 08, 01:14 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.setup
Ron Badour[_2_]
External Usenet User
 
Posts: 21
Default Where's drive D gone? Advice?

Use your floppy disk to create a logical partition inside the extended
partition. Use all the available space.

--
Regards

Ron Badour
MS MVP
Windows Desktop Experience


"poachedeggs" wrote in message
...
Hello. I've just reinstalled 98 on an old Toshiba laptop. Even
before the last installation was gone there'd been a drive D, the hard
drive in some way partitioned, something I don't completely understand
on that particular machine. This is a 4 gig machine, but C is 2047
mbytes. Where has the rest gone and how do I get it back, better
still, could I incorporate it into C or at least access it from
Windows again? I've used fdisk from my boot floppy and see that C
seems to be partitioned into 1 and 2, 1 has a status of A, Pri Dos, 2
is Ext Dos (1862 mbytes).

Having just been through the reinstallation palaver, can I sort this
out, entirely or in part, without wiping the hard drive? (Don't say
no...)

There are 4 options under Fdisk options - do options 1 or 3 come into
this (create dos partition or ligical dos drive & delete partition or
logical dos drive)

I'd hoped when I wiped C and reinstalled that the full 4 gig would be
visible.

At the moment D seems to be the ramdrive my boot disk creates, but I'm
sure this was once half the hard drive, although D also seems to be a
'logical dos drive'.

E is the CD drive, A the floppy. (I don't know quite enough about
this to know if you need telling this.)

If someone could describe what I need to do in steps, preferably
without downloading anything else, that'd be great. Thanks in
advance.

p.s. Could I split D then and put a small version of Linux on it?



  #4  
Old November 27th 08, 01:46 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.setup
poachedeggs
External Usenet User
 
Posts: 25
Default Where's drive D gone? Advice?

I managed to sort things out about twenty seconds after i'd sent the
original posting here, funnily enough. The D partition of the hard
drive had failed to show because it was not formatted. I did my usual
potentially harebrained thing of guessing and tapping in stuff that
could have gone wrong.




On Nov 27, 12:14*am, "Ron Badour" wrote:
Use your floppy disk to create a logical partition inside the extended
partition. *Use all the available space.

--
Regards

Ron Badour
MS MVP
Windows Desktop Experience

"poachedeggs" wrote in message

...

Hello. *I've just reinstalled 98 on an old Toshiba laptop. *Even
before the last installation was gone there'd been a drive D, the hard
drive in some way partitioned, something I don't completely understand
on that particular machine. *This is a 4 gig machine, but C is 2047
mbytes. *Where has the rest gone and how do I get it back, better
still, could I incorporate it into C or at least access it from
Windows again? *I've used fdisk from my boot floppy and see that C
seems to be partitioned into 1 and 2, 1 has a status of A, *Pri Dos, 2
is Ext Dos (1862 mbytes).


Having just been through the reinstallation palaver, can I sort this
out, entirely or in part, without wiping the hard drive? *(Don't say
no...)


There are 4 options under Fdisk options - do options 1 or 3 come into
this (create dos partition or ligical dos drive & delete partition or
logical dos drive)


I'd hoped when I wiped C and reinstalled that the full 4 gig would be
visible.


At the moment D seems to be the ramdrive my boot disk creates, but I'm
sure this was once half the hard drive, although D also seems to be a
'logical dos drive'.


E is the CD drive, A the floppy. *(I don't know quite enough about
this to know if you need telling this.)


If someone could describe what I need to do in steps, preferably
without downloading anything else, that'd be great. *Thanks in
advance.


p.s. Could I split D then and put a small version of Linux on it?


  #5  
Old November 27th 08, 01:46 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.setup
poachedeggs
External Usenet User
 
Posts: 25
Default Where's drive D gone? Advice?

I managed to sort things out about twenty seconds after i'd sent the
original posting here, funnily enough. The D partition of the hard
drive had failed to show because it was not formatted. I did my usual
potentially harebrained thing of guessing and tapping in stuff that
could have gone wrong.




On Nov 27, 12:14*am, "Ron Badour" wrote:
Use your floppy disk to create a logical partition inside the extended
partition. *Use all the available space.

--
Regards

Ron Badour
MS MVP
Windows Desktop Experience

"poachedeggs" wrote in message

...

Hello. *I've just reinstalled 98 on an old Toshiba laptop. *Even
before the last installation was gone there'd been a drive D, the hard
drive in some way partitioned, something I don't completely understand
on that particular machine. *This is a 4 gig machine, but C is 2047
mbytes. *Where has the rest gone and how do I get it back, better
still, could I incorporate it into C or at least access it from
Windows again? *I've used fdisk from my boot floppy and see that C
seems to be partitioned into 1 and 2, 1 has a status of A, *Pri Dos, 2
is Ext Dos (1862 mbytes).


Having just been through the reinstallation palaver, can I sort this
out, entirely or in part, without wiping the hard drive? *(Don't say
no...)


There are 4 options under Fdisk options - do options 1 or 3 come into
this (create dos partition or ligical dos drive & delete partition or
logical dos drive)


I'd hoped when I wiped C and reinstalled that the full 4 gig would be
visible.


At the moment D seems to be the ramdrive my boot disk creates, but I'm
sure this was once half the hard drive, although D also seems to be a
'logical dos drive'.


E is the CD drive, A the floppy. *(I don't know quite enough about
this to know if you need telling this.)


If someone could describe what I need to do in steps, preferably
without downloading anything else, that'd be great. *Thanks in
advance.


p.s. Could I split D then and put a small version of Linux on it?


  #6  
Old November 27th 08, 02:18 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.setup
Ron Badour[_2_]
External Usenet User
 
Posts: 21
Default Where's drive D gone? Advice?

Glad you got it sorted. The reason all your space was not used initially
when you created the C: partition is due to one of two factors. You failed
to say yes to large drive support when running fdisk (most probable) or you
ran into the 2 gb bios limitation that existed years ago.

--
Regards

Ron Badour
MS MVP
Windows Desktop Experience


"poachedeggs" wrote in message
...
I managed to sort things out about twenty seconds after i'd sent the
original posting here, funnily enough. The D partition of the hard
drive had failed to show because it was not formatted. I did my usual
potentially harebrained thing of guessing and tapping in stuff that
could have gone wrong.




On Nov 27, 12:14 am, "Ron Badour" wrote:
Use your floppy disk to create a logical partition inside the extended
partition. Use all the available space.

--
Regards

Ron Badour
MS MVP
Windows Desktop Experience

"poachedeggs" wrote in message

...

Hello. I've just reinstalled 98 on an old Toshiba laptop. Even
before the last installation was gone there'd been a drive D, the hard
drive in some way partitioned, something I don't completely understand
on that particular machine. This is a 4 gig machine, but C is 2047
mbytes. Where has the rest gone and how do I get it back, better
still, could I incorporate it into C or at least access it from
Windows again? I've used fdisk from my boot floppy and see that C
seems to be partitioned into 1 and 2, 1 has a status of A, Pri Dos, 2
is Ext Dos (1862 mbytes).


Having just been through the reinstallation palaver, can I sort this
out, entirely or in part, without wiping the hard drive? (Don't say
no...)


There are 4 options under Fdisk options - do options 1 or 3 come into
this (create dos partition or ligical dos drive & delete partition or
logical dos drive)


I'd hoped when I wiped C and reinstalled that the full 4 gig would be
visible.


At the moment D seems to be the ramdrive my boot disk creates, but I'm
sure this was once half the hard drive, although D also seems to be a
'logical dos drive'.


E is the CD drive, A the floppy. (I don't know quite enough about
this to know if you need telling this.)


If someone could describe what I need to do in steps, preferably
without downloading anything else, that'd be great. Thanks in
advance.


p.s. Could I split D then and put a small version of Linux on it?



  #7  
Old November 27th 08, 02:18 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.setup
Ron Badour[_2_]
External Usenet User
 
Posts: 21
Default Where's drive D gone? Advice?

Glad you got it sorted. The reason all your space was not used initially
when you created the C: partition is due to one of two factors. You failed
to say yes to large drive support when running fdisk (most probable) or you
ran into the 2 gb bios limitation that existed years ago.

--
Regards

Ron Badour
MS MVP
Windows Desktop Experience


"poachedeggs" wrote in message
...
I managed to sort things out about twenty seconds after i'd sent the
original posting here, funnily enough. The D partition of the hard
drive had failed to show because it was not formatted. I did my usual
potentially harebrained thing of guessing and tapping in stuff that
could have gone wrong.




On Nov 27, 12:14 am, "Ron Badour" wrote:
Use your floppy disk to create a logical partition inside the extended
partition. Use all the available space.

--
Regards

Ron Badour
MS MVP
Windows Desktop Experience

"poachedeggs" wrote in message

...

Hello. I've just reinstalled 98 on an old Toshiba laptop. Even
before the last installation was gone there'd been a drive D, the hard
drive in some way partitioned, something I don't completely understand
on that particular machine. This is a 4 gig machine, but C is 2047
mbytes. Where has the rest gone and how do I get it back, better
still, could I incorporate it into C or at least access it from
Windows again? I've used fdisk from my boot floppy and see that C
seems to be partitioned into 1 and 2, 1 has a status of A, Pri Dos, 2
is Ext Dos (1862 mbytes).


Having just been through the reinstallation palaver, can I sort this
out, entirely or in part, without wiping the hard drive? (Don't say
no...)


There are 4 options under Fdisk options - do options 1 or 3 come into
this (create dos partition or ligical dos drive & delete partition or
logical dos drive)


I'd hoped when I wiped C and reinstalled that the full 4 gig would be
visible.


At the moment D seems to be the ramdrive my boot disk creates, but I'm
sure this was once half the hard drive, although D also seems to be a
'logical dos drive'.


E is the CD drive, A the floppy. (I don't know quite enough about
this to know if you need telling this.)


If someone could describe what I need to do in steps, preferably
without downloading anything else, that'd be great. Thanks in
advance.


p.s. Could I split D then and put a small version of Linux on it?



  #8  
Old November 27th 08, 01:22 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.setup
poachedeggs
External Usenet User
 
Posts: 25
Default Where's drive D gone? Advice?

Ah-ha!

On Nov 27, 1:18*am, "Ron Badour" wrote:
Glad you got it sorted. *The reason all your space was not used initially

  #9  
Old November 27th 08, 01:22 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.setup
poachedeggs
External Usenet User
 
Posts: 25
Default Where's drive D gone? Advice?

Ah-ha!

On Nov 27, 1:18*am, "Ron Badour" wrote:
Glad you got it sorted. *The reason all your space was not used initially

 




Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

vB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Forum Jump

Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
Need Advice bobster General 24 March 31st 08 11:44 PM
Some Advice Please siljaline General 6 January 27th 06 05:53 AM
Some Advice Please Job General 39 January 27th 06 03:35 AM
Some Advice Please Shane General 6 January 26th 06 05:39 PM
Some Advice Please siljaline General 1 January 26th 06 04:20 PM


All times are GMT +1. The time now is 06:59 PM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.6.4
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
Copyright ©2004-2024 Win98banter.
The comments are property of their posters.