2nd hard drive wont "hold" partition

[vizun]

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***

[Cricket]

Did you try to format the logical drives while still in DOS and then see if you can see the partitions while in Windows?

Cricket

[vizun]

Windows can see the partitions, the problem is it comes up as some filesystem like fat16 or whatever. Ill format it to fat32 while in windows, and then when i restart it erases the data, and resets the filesystem to fat16 (or whatever it is).

[andyms18a]

you nead to make a primary partition of say 5gb then an extended partition of 15 gb then your logical partitions

[glc]

Not necessarily - you can make the whole drive an extended partition. I'd partition and format it from DOS.

[andyms18a]

Originally posted by glc Not necessarily - you can make the whole drive an extended partition. I'd partition and format it from DOS.

i think this only works if the drive is not set to active but if its set to active it neads a primery partition on it but i may be talking crap i just seam to remeber a simuler problam that we had with a hdd at work that we fixed by putting a primery partition on it

[Cricket]

Originally posted by andyms18a i think this only works if the drive is not set to active but if its set to active it neads a primery partition on it but i may be talking crap i just seam to remeber a simuler problam that we had with a hdd at work that we fixed by putting a primery partition on it

With 2 hard drives in place and the master having the active partition, the whole second hard drive can be the extended partition as long as there is no active primary partition on it since the active primary partition is already on the first hard drive.

Cricket

[vizun]

ill try it again with a primary, and an extend partition to see how it works like that.

[vizun]

Ok, haah new problem. This is maxtor 20 gig hdd. I partitioned it to have 1 primary partition(about 5 gigs) and 1 extend aprtition that's like 14.somethign gigs. Now In windows i have 4 logical drives. The c drive (on the first hdd) and then 3 on the second. The D primary partition is 5 gigs, E logical drive is 14.1, and then there's another Logical drive F that is 14.1 gigs as well. This makes no sense to me as its only 20 gigs, how can i fix this?

[andyms18a]

download the Maxtor diag software and test the drive as it may have a faulty controller chip