F Disk

[Spawndude]

I ran FDISK on a new 15 Gig 5400 Maxtor harddrive using a WinME boot disk.

K6-2 450 CPU and a Tyan Trinity mobo. 128 meg ram.
Went into BIOS and set to Auto Detect
HD set to master, no slave on primary
CD ROM on secondary master,no slave on secondary.

Made three partitions C: 3 gig, D: 500 meg, E:10 gig (or what ever was left).
Rebooted, formatted C,D,E. No problems encountered. As expected E: took the longest to format.

Installed WinME, drivers, cards, etc. No problems.

Opened "My Computer" and found only a C: and D: drive

D: was CD ROM, C: was formatted to maximum capacity ( 14 gig or so)

Any ideas what happened???? I've never had anything like this happen!!!

 

[BurntKooshie]

Try General forum, or Tech Support forum.

 

[Angrymarshmello]

Even though it's the wrong forum, I'd suggest checking the manual - Maxtors sometimes have that proprietary boot sector (err not sure of the correct term, it's 4 AM in the morning) that will only allow it's own MaxBlast software to partition the drive.

 

[Spawndude]

OK, will repost in Tech Support.

 

[GregMal]

You also may have hit the 8.4 gig BIOS limitation........
Greg