Re-partitioning a slave hard drive

[RobK1]

I have a Pentium III running Win98 2nd Ed to which I have added a 2nd hard drive from an older computer. The problem is that this 2nd drive is in multiple small partitions and I would like to set it up as one large partition. How can I do this safely without impacting my primary HD?

Thanks

 

[SESaskDFC]

Howdy:

Temporarily make it the Primary Master.. Use a Win98 startup floppy and fdisk to combine partitions and format. Once done, re-jumper it as the slave.

Murray

 

[gargouille]

Maybe stoopid question but why wouldn't you just shut down and 1) install the 2nd drive as Primary Slave (guessing that's what it'll be) 2)Boot to the BIOS to ensure the drive's being seen correctly 3)This time boot with the Win98 disk and do the fdisk/format?

 

[RobK1]

The 2nd hard drive is already a primary slave and is working fine. What I am not sure about is how to make sure that fdisk will target that hard drive and not my primary (Master).

 

[gargouille]

You'll get option 5 added when fdisk sees the drive and offers you a chance to select it...not very intuitive, I know, but choose the slave (probably drive 2)
MOF: fdisk(space)/status(enter)would show it...

 

[RobK1]

Thanks!

 

[jmatt]

Another way .

Start > Run , type in fdisk & press Enter .

Choose option 5 & select disk 2 .

You will know by the drive info , you are on the correct drive .