New HDD

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mank!

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OK, I've just got a new Seagate Barracuda 80gb 7800rpm jobby to give me some much needed disk space, I've installed it, formatted it, given it a drive letter etc and it shows up on my HDD but I want to create a couple of partitions. I loaded up PartionMagic and it came up like this:

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It's showing as other? It's an NTFS partition (would that make any difference as the rest are FAT32?) and Windows likes it fine, but I can't do anything to it via PartitionMagic.

Help me, I've been doing this for 3 hours :(
 
S

(Shovel)

Guest
I don't know what the current state of play is with 3rd party applications and NTFS.

Bascially, the case always used to be that because MS keep the design under wraps, partitioning programs can set them up, but can edit them once they're in use. Similarly you can get 3rd party DOS apps (like Norton Ghost) that will read them, but can't write back again.

The chances are that you will need to destroy the partition, then rebuild it to repartition NTFS.
 
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nath

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No idea. I'd try fdisking it to fat32 then NTFSing it back again. Then see if pm can do anything with it.

There are third party apps that can write to NTFS. I found this out when trying to make a boot disk that could also read my NTFS drive in dos. Getting it to read was easy, loads of free apps, being able to write meant forking out some dosh |:
 
M

mank!

Guest
I'm sure I've had no problems partioning NTFS before though, that's what confuses me. I tried to format it to FAT32 but it said volume too large, so I tried NTFS.

Should I be able to format it to FAT32 again?
 
N

nath

Guest
Check in win2k disk management (if you're in 2k) and see if you can stop it being dynamic. My mate just said he thinks dynamic has something to do with software RAID. You probably want to change it to "fixed" if poss.
 
M

mank!

Guest
That's what I was trying to do, change it to fixed/basic. I can't using the Disk Manager though :|
 
N

nath

Guest
Hmm, could be a bios thing then. Do you have one of those onboard raid mobos?
 
N

nath

Guest
Had a fiddle through the bios to try and turn off any raid related shennanigans?
 
M

mank!

Guest
Yep, can't see anything relating to fixed/basic. I'll look again.
 
N

nath

Guest
It may not actually say that, it may say something seemingly unrelated but actually changes what you need it to.
 
N

nath

Guest
not really :/ Stuff that says something about RAID.

Compare settings for your primary hdd to your secondary, there should be something different as your C is ok.
 
M

mank!

Guest
Nope, tried, nothing. Turned something called HDD S.M.A.R.T on though, doesn't seem to have done anything.

I'm looking for a prog that'll convert dynamic drives to basic/fixed.
 
M

mank!

Guest
Brilliant. Apparently everything under the sun can convert a basic partition to a dynamic, but Win2000 has a fault in which you can't revert back.

Lovely.
 
M

mank!

Guest
Doing so for the third or fourth time today, unlikely that it's going to make any difference but here we go here we go here we gooooo.
 
N

nath

Guest
Here we gooo again. Racing through my veinsss and I just can't contaieaeain that feeling that remaieaeains she calls my name, calls my name lalallala
 
M

mank!

Guest
Reformatting has done precisely fuck all to the drive.
 
N

nath

Guest
Don't reformat. Fdisk and remove the partiction, so it's basically 80gbs of unpartitioned space.
 
M

mank!

Guest
Fdisk eh. Pity I haven't got a floppy drive to boot from :/
 
N

nath

Guest
oh man, ultramegalame attack!

You can make a bootable CD. Don't ask me how, I did one ages ago, and now I've forgotten.

You may be able to get an image for one though.
 
T

Testin da Cable

Guest
Originally posted by mank!
Reformatting has done precisely fuck all to the drive.
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it's your partition type that's wrong tbh. I don't know how to change it on windows. I do on unix, but you don't want to know that really.
 
N

nath

Guest
Actually, you can mess about with partition stuffé in disk management. Try there, mank.

edit: yeah do delete partition, and go from there.
 
M

mank!

Guest
Oh, excellent. I just posted in general too :|

tA :D
 
N

nath

Guest
That'll do it. Hopefully he won't need it now though.
 
W

whipped

Guest
You don't need a bootable win2k cd to remove a partition using fdisk. If you need one then I'll upload the win95 version of fdisk and you can put it on a bootdisk downloaded from http://www.bootdisk.com

After that you just need to remove the partition that shows as unknown. Option 3 then option 3 again I think.

edit : In fact fdisk is in the utilities section of that site.
 
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