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Think I got it...
Admiral, thanks for sharing what you've got. Saw your post and decided to attempt this one more time. Think I've got everything done OK now (fingers crossed). Wasn't easy though, P. Magic kept hanging on me.
I tried a different approach, doing one Operation at a time rather than batching. P.Magic would go through the first step (create the partition) then hang. Had to End Task to get out. Then I'd go to Disk Mgmt and the partition would be there, sized as I wanted it. So I used Disk Mgmt to format/convert to NTFS. (Couldn't do the entire process in Disk Mgmt because "Primary" was only option enabled.) I had to repeat this 'program hopping' until all 4 partitions were completed, as PM continued to hang after creating each new partition.
Here's what I've got now per P. Magic:
- Unallocated 7.8MB Primary
- (I)NTFS 15,0006 Logical
- (J)NTFS 15,006 Logical
- (K)NTFS 20,002 Logical
- (L)NTFS 26,270 Logical
This is what's displayed in Disk Management:
- (I) 14.65GB NTFS Healthy Extended/Logical
- (J) 14.65GB NTFS Healthy Extended/Logical
- (K) 19.53GB NTFS Healthy Extended/Logical
- (L) 25.65 GB NTFS Healthy Extended/Logical
I tried a couple test "Saves" of documents and was able to retrieve them OK.
I just hope I've not goobered up this drive somehow. Was going to run Western Digital's Data Lifeguard, New version 10.0 supports USB and is 'certified to work on all WD hard drives'. But my PC won't boot with External drive connected. If I disconnect the external drive, boot from Data Lifeguard floppy, then plug in external HD, the external HD isn't detected by DataLifeguard. Only internal drive is. Oh well. Kind of burned out on this. I sure hope there's no hidden problem with the drive.
Many thanks to all of you who helped me out! -Kat
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Hi KatMac,
"Still shows unallocated 7.8MB Primary up front."
You know... I've just now learned something in this saga that you have been trying to figure out. I don't think I had ever even paid attention to this enigmatic factor that has just grabbed my attention:
I have three physical hard drives in this machine --
Drive 1 - an 80 GB partitioned C thru G
Drive 2 - a 120 GB that has only partition H (just for storing Ghost images)
Drive 3 - a 30 GB that has nothing but Mandrake Linux on it
When I look at these drives in Partition Magic, all three of them have that same 7.8 GB of unallocated Primary partition! Why that is the case, I simply don't know. :eek:
KatMac, for what it's worth, I'd just forget that it is there, and let 'er rip in going ahead and setting yours up the way you want it. :D
*** Later Edit ***
I see that you posted just ahead of me, and that you've gone ahead with it! Sounds like you've nailed it! Good girl! :)
Limerick
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Thanks Limerick - I was feeling pretty inept over this whole thing, but reading your post made me feel a lot better. :) -Kat
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That is part of the boot sector. And yes it needs to be there.
My 80 shows the 7.8MB and my 30's show 7.4MB.
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Thanks, Train. I'm going to just rest easy that at least the partitioning phase has been successful. I have, however, encountered yet another issue (hopefully minor and unrelated to Partition Magic) with this drive, but that belongs in General Hardware.
Appreciate everyone's input. -Kat
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Re the 7.8mb... As I said in an earlier reply, when no primary partition is allocated on a drive, then cylinder zero is not used. Allocation of the extended partition begins with cylinder 1. It's just the convention for most partitioning tools. That is why the unallocated 7.8mb (number varies some depending on the drive).
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Thanks for the update DrMDJ. Missed it the first time around. Need new glasses I quess. ;)
