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vizun · 11-14-2003, 05:11 PM

Hey, this is really weird, Im running win98se, and i have 2 harddrives. The first is a 6gig maxtor HD, and the second is a 20gig maxtor hd. I partitioned the first one to have one primary the whole size of the drive. On the second i tried to create 1 extended partition, and then put 2 logical drives inside each half the size of the drive. Now when i go into windows, format the 2 logical drives, i reboot, and it erases the filesystem on the logical drives. Why on earth would it do this?

***Edit, when i partition the 2nd hdd as one primary partition the whole size of the drive, i can format the drive, and it works fine***

11-14-2003, 05:11 PM	#1
vizun Member (8 bit) Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: U.S. -- Arlington, TX Posts: 245	2nd hard drive wont "hold" partition Hey, this is really weird, Im running win98se, and i have 2 harddrives. The first is a 6gig maxtor HD, and the second is a 20gig maxtor hd. I partitioned the first one to have one primary the whole size of the drive. On the second i tried to create 1 extended partition, and then put 2 logical drives inside each half the size of the drive. Now when i go into windows, format the 2 logical drives, i reboot, and it erases the filesystem on the logical drives. Why on earth would it do this? *Edit, when i partition the 2nd hdd as one primary partition the whole size of the drive, i can format the drive, and it works fine*