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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? |
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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? |
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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? |
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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? |
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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? |
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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? |
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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? |
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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 |
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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 |
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