second hd split up to D: and E: after reinstall

[grasshopperbe]

i just reinstalled windows 98se. i have 2 maxtors (20gig primary, 60 secondary) on ide 1, a cdrw primary and a cdrom secondary on ide 2,
i formatted both drives before install.
everything seemsed to normal, untill i got into windows. for some weird reason, i now have my second hd split up i a 8 mb fat partition, and the rest in a normal fat 32 partition (called d and e drives). before it worked entirely normal. it did put in the second hd after my previous install. when i check my hardware in control panel everything goes ok

[TwoRails]

Hi grasshopperbe,

I'm not sure what you asking.... I personally like splitting up larger drives as there are many advantages. I would have split the 60 giger up into probably 4 logical drives.

TwoRails

[grasshopperbe]

no i didnt partition it at all. it i. i had 2 hds with each a single partition. i formatted both and reinstalled win98 on the 20 gb drive. i didnt repartition or anything. after install, i go to 'my computer' and i see that there's c,d and e hard drive icon. when i choose properties of the "8mb d: drive", it says its fat and not fat 32. wheni go to control panel and check my hardware, my 60 gb has d: and e: appointed. somehow windows did this in the install. also i just called a friend and he had the same problem a while ago. he also has 2hd's and cd's, also formatted and reinstalled windows. he told me he got rid of the 8 mb with partition magic. would this be a good option for me?

[TwoRails]

Hi grasshopperbe,

Before you spent the $60 or so for PM, is there any special reason for wanting the 60 giger as one 60 gig drive??

By splitting it up, you gain things like increased storage space by having smaller cluster sizes, faster scandisk and defrag times, convienence of backing up specific partitions (like one for all your documents / date, another for games, and so on).

Also, Win 98.2 will convert the FAT to a FAT 32 if you'd like.

TwoRails

[grasshopperbe]

well i understand your point but my problem is that i didnt touch the partitions. it happened all by itself during the windows install.
i just let partition magic 7 delete the 8 mb partition (i thinks its something of a leftover from booting with cdrom support to install windows, then a 'virtual drive' called d is made(for several commands) and i thinks the intaller messed that up with my actual d: drive.) i just deleted the 8 mb fat partition and let drivemapper do its work. this shouldnt get me any problems i hope, (8 mb not being 'allocated' i mean)
or would it be advisable to repartition the whole drive?

[TwoRails]

Hi grasshopperbe,

It sounds like you should do it again so that it's exactly what you want. If it didn't turn out like I wanted, I'd do it again.

Want did you want? Just one drive at 60 gig?

TwoRails