Re-Partition probs

[Stealth]

Sorry to bother everyone with such an easy one, I have only re-partitioned one time, and I lost that drive. I hate DOS, I'm just a young pup, I like the GUI not DOS. My problem is I just got a new HDD and I need to partition it into 3 drives, I dont know how to do this, I can set up one partition just fine, more than that I am stuck. any help you guy's/girl's can give me would be greatly appreciated(?).

[Phil]

when you create the primary dos partition it asks you if you want to use the full capacity and make the drive active, select no and type how much you want this partition to be. Then you need to create an extended partition, for this use the full space that is left, then you need to create logical partitions, these are created inside the extended one, simply make the first extended how ever large you want it to be, then make the final one the size of what is left.

[Jon]

If not using FDISK then you'll need something like Partition Magic. I haven't used that in years so don't know how to tell you for a walk-through. I'm an FDISK man myself.

For FDISK you need to make one primary partition which you have already done. Then make an extended partition with the remaining space. You will then be prompted to create logical drives within that extended partition. From there you just make two logical drives to take up all the space within that extended partition. You will now have 3 full partitions...1 primary and 2 that exist in the extended.

Here's a crude (very crude) visual example if it makes sense:

[Stealth]

I have done that, thank's for the help. I noticed that when I resterted with my boot disk after the partition that the ram-drive was drive f: and my cd drives were g: and h: but after I re-installed windows I still only had drive c: and cd's were d: and e: again. could this be becuse I used norton ghost to to backup my files and restored from the backup, if so have I over-writen the partitions I have just created.

[Jon]

Not really. DOS and Windows will see drives differently sometimes. It's all in which OS initializes what drives first.

As far as losing the extended partitions when reimaging, I wasn't aware that Norton's rewrote partition tables. It will slap on the image to whatever partition you tell it to although I haven't used Ghost in a long time. I suppose it's possible the image recreated the partition table as well. Match the total disk space available in Windows to how much your hard drive has and if you're not missing any then I would say it rewrote your partition table. If you're missing the difference in what D: and E: were then you may need to recreate those partitions.

Sorry if this sounds confusing but I think you know where I'm getting at.

[David]

I have used gjost a couple of weeks ago and it has never rewrote my partition table. I copied an image that I had made to a prtition a different size from the source one (smaller) It worked fine and it kept my partition table. Ghost has saved my A$$ more than once...

[LinkStatic]

just one question, have you formatted the 2 extended partitions? formatting your primary partition will format that partition only... you need to format each partition.... so that windows will be able to recognize them...

[Stealth]

I did not format the other two, but windows is showing that the drive is 40gb's, does that mean norton ghost wrote over my partitoin

[minoukat]

What os are you using ? If it's win95-98-98se-me (maybe nt-2000 ?), just go "start-run" and type in fdisk, then go to option 4 (displays your drive information, so if GHOST has restored your partition table, you will only see the primary partition (or whatever you had before), not what you created.

Hope this helps

[Stealth]

Thanks for all the help everyone. I finally got it, ghost DID re-write my partition table, I installed win/me from origonal cd and have all 3 drives, so I thought I might have not done the partition right, I then formated again and restored from my ghost cd, and guess what only one drive C:, I really like ghost, I'll have to figure out why it re-wrote my partition table.