2 hard disk

[Rob23]

i installed a two hard disks in my system one is already running a O/S. When i run fdisk i can only see 500 mb of my second hd ,whereas it is 10 gb. And in winnt i use disk manager to create an extended partation and format it , but when i come back to dos i cant access this partation.
can any one help me

 

[gads12]

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[hd]

The first one is a fujitsu 3.2 gb and the secone one is a seagate 10 gb ,i have installed winnt ws on the first one and made a 50 mb partation on the second one with dos on it in fdisk i cannot see more than 500mb of the secone hd.
I made partations on the second hd by booting from the first hd and and creating it in winnt, and also copied files while in nt but can't access this partation in dos. only the 50 mb partation.

 

[edfair]

You are talking two different types of filesystems (FATs). The NT filesystem won't be seen from dos.
Sounds as if you would be better using partition magic and creating two partitions on your first drive, one for dos (could be very small) and one for NT. This would allow the choice on power up which way you wanted to go.
In cmos setup, you could choose LBA as the drive type for Dwhich it should allow) and create up to 2 Gb primary partition using DOS fdisk which DOS on C: could access. Then with NT create the second partition on D: which should identify to NT as E:.
And you have to be careful what DOS you are working with. The version that comes with W95B & C , and the one that comes with 98 allows 32 bit FATs which are not recognized by DOSs before W95B.
Hope this isn't too confusing to you.
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