Partition problems

[Cruez]

Lemme try to see if you guys can help me....

After losing much of my information and having to do a low level format..

I am now going to setup the drive in multiple partitions...

Its a 60 gig HDD and running Win98SE.


I created a total of 6 partitions. one primary and 5 extended logical partitions in FDISK. and formatted them.

When I rebooted into windows...only three of them show with labels...the others showed unallocated ?!?!

So I used parition magic and removed all of them and started over... After I created them again, I got the same thing...So after a reboot I created the other 3 and rebooted....then three other partitions showed up (total of nine) and three had duplicate names ???

Are there some rules I am missing??

[BBA]

Win98SE format or fdisk tools can not handle greater than 32GB drives. This apears contrary to the stated 2 terrabyte limit of FAT32, but is not...it is the tools that do not support it.

You can fdisk and format a larger than 32 GB drive with FAT32 ( win98 fdisk/format tools) but the file size indications and partition info will not read correctly. The only way to tell is format one partition, load windows and look at the partition in explorer.

PM8 uses PCDOS file system tools, which have different limits but are still close to the Win98 limits.

This is why a convincing case exists for using WinNT/XP NTFS file systems, but just around teh corner is the WinFS (Future Storage ) file system...so we will have yet another new thing to learn!

[Cruez]

What would be the correct way to partition the 60 gig drive into the following partitions...

15 gig
15 gig
11 gig
7 gig
5 gig
5 gig

What needs to be primary, extended...besides being logical drives??

[NDC]

You will need to stick with 4 partitions, and no more. If I remember correctly, Windows 98 will not allow more than one Primary and 3 logical drives. Only way around this would be to use a boot manager such as System Commander...

[kmzpub]

Hi,

Well, you can try Active@ Partition Recovery to see what can be done. Actually, it did really helped me time before, and I suppose it to be really great tool. Recommended!
http://www.partition-recovery.com/