Adding a Drive

[mans]

Hello,

I have an IBM laptop (Thinkpad, 5 months old) running Windows 98 2nd Edition. For the first time I ran the recovery disk in order to re-install Windows 98 2nd Edition. After it installed I was missing my second drive (drive D, which was present before the installation). Can someone please let me know what I need to do to bring back this directory, I currently only have half of the hard drive space available.

Thank You

 

[frag]

Hi mans!

Hm... can you access your second drive in DOS - mode?
Check with 'fdisk' whether the the partition is still there
or not.

Fishing in the dark... X-)


frag patrick.metz@epost.de

 

[mans]

Thanks for your reply Frag,

I cannot access it in DOS. When I type fdisk it asks me if I wish to enable the large disk support, if I say No (or Yes) it then asks if I wish to Create DOS partition, Set Active Partition (says the only startable partition on Drive 1 is already set to active), Delete Partition or Partition Info.

Partition info says that I am using FAT16, Partition c:1, Status A and usage 36%. Total disk space is 5726 MBytes.

I would greatly appreciate any further advice to enable the second drive.

Regards

 

[rfeenie]

theres your problem. you need to create an extended DOS partition to take up the rest of the space, dont worry this wont delete your c: drive. once you have done that, reboot go into dos and type format d:

this will format the remainder

Rob If in doubt get the Ball Pein Hammer out

 

[mans]

Thanks,

I created a DOS partition and after restarting I open the DOS window and type Format d:

Drive d is currently being used as a CD Rom drive (says cannot format a network drive) and when I try to allocated another letter in place of d it says invalid drive specification.

Can you please let me know where I should go from here.

Thanks Again

 

[CitrixEngineer]

Try doing this from a system disk rather than from within a window - or althernatively, if you press the [F8] key IMMEDIATELY after you see the "Starting Windows 98..." message on rebooting, you will get a menu which offers you a variety of options. One of them will be Command Prompt only.

Choose this, and you will get a "Real" DOS session, which will allow you to re-partition and re-format without the CDROM interfering.

Sometimes Windows loses the CD-ROM after such an operation, but best to cross that bridge if you come to it.

I hope this helps.

 

[keypounder]

Hello, regardless of using a laptop or a desktop
anytime you are dealing with formating, partitions adding or removing
you will be better off by FIRST assigning a new letter to your CD CD/RW etc.. such as R,S and others down the alphabet
to do so go to control panel, sys property,device manager, view device by type,left click the device, right click, property and setting: there change the device letter and then deal with partitioning
best advise in dealing with partition D-load partition magic from PQ or look for the Rannish @

http://www.ranish.com/

one of the best way to learn about HDD partition and more

 

[mans]

Hello,

I re-formatted a drive and lost a CD drive in the process (CD re-writer). Can someone please let me know what I need to do to get that CD drive back.

Thank You