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Hi Ed and Daniel,
As I stated before, Win95 original WILL ONLY SUPPORT 2.1GB..... It doesn't
matter how you slice it... You will not get Win95 original to recognize a
hard drive larger than 2.1GB..... It's a fact of Win95 software
Get the latest version of PartitionMagic 5.0.... or 4.0
Hugh
At 06:19 PM 11/6/99 -0800, you wrote:
Ed,
I've had much experience with partitions so I can help you. When you
create 1 partition on your master drive it is, as you know, C: and your
primary partition. When you create 1 partition on your second slave drive
it is, as you know, D: and its primary partition.
Although this doesn't apply to you, you should know each drive can have up
to 4 primary partitions but only one can be active and seen by your
O/S. FDISK will allow you to create more than 1 primary partition and
choose which is active.
After you create a primary partition, you create your Extended partition
for the rest of the drive. Inside your Extended partition, you create
logical partitions. With FDISK, once you create a drive, you cannot
resize it. This is where you are having trouble. With your deleted E:
logical partition inside your Extended partition, you now have a large
empty space there. Since your E: partition encompassed your entire
Extended partition of your master drive, your entire Extended partition is
empty.
The easiest way to increase your C: partition is to use PM to delete your
Extended partition and resize your C: partition.
Another way is to use some type of free partition copy software, such as
which comes with hard drives sometimes, to copy it to another hard drive,
delete all the partitions on your original drive, and finally copy the C:
partition back. I once used Western Digital's HDD software which comes
with their drives and it was total junk. It did an excellent job of
trashing my HDD's partition table and it took me days to figure out how to
fix it.
The third and final way you already know and is the hardest. Backup the
entire C: partition to tape, use FDISK to delete all partitions, recreate
C:, and restore from tape. Problem with this method is that I'm not
exactly sure how you're going to use your tape backup software if you have
deleted all your software on your C: partition. Even if you have your
tape backup software on D:, the software uses your Windows Registry and
you have, of course, deleted it (and that's not good, that's a baaad thing
LOL). And let's not forget about those shared Windows\System files your
backup software uses (it may get a bit upset when it can't find them ).
If you don't want to reinstall your entire system, it would behoove you to
buy PM. Because your drives are under 8 GB, maybe you can borrow PM v3.05
from someone. You can copy the main files onto a floppy and use PM from
there.
Some further information for you: Your O/S will first recognize the
active primary partition in your master drive, then the active primary
partition in your slave drive, then the logical partitions in the extended
partition in your master drive, and finally the logical partitions in the
extended partition in your slave drive. The active primary partition in
your master drive is always the boot partition.
Good Luck,
Daniel.
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