harddisk partition

[himanyu]

i make a partition to my 10.2 GB hard disk into 5 virtual drive...
the thing is if i attached another slave hard disk, the slave drive doesn't appeared in the explorer althought BIOS has detected the second hard disk. Is there a way to solve this problem??

 

[AndyHui]

You have FDISKed and FORMATted the other slave drive?

 

[himanyu]

what do you mean?? if i do that i would have lost all the data in slave drive, right?
is there a way to keep my data? all i want to do is copying from the slave drive to the master drive.

 

[Ben]

What OS are you using?

What file system is on the slave drive?

Why do you have your drive split into 5 sections?

 

[Spiff]

5 partitions on any drive is wasted space... you have 5 2GB partitions on one 10GB drive. that's a waste.

 

[himanyu]

i am using windows98 second edition on my master drive and on the slave win95. would it make any different? i just need to copy some data, mp3 and some win game from the slave to the master. my friends say i should split my harddisk to increase the computer speed and also, if one section is error and need to be reformatted, i don't need to lose all my data.
and i don't think it's a waste. it probably consume lest than 80 MB, but it worth considering the advantages it could gave.

 

[Spiff]

Creating smaller partitions is waste of space due to the fact that on any given partition you have limited the amount of data you can store there. What happens when a directory or application or game requires 200MB and you only have left, 100MB on one partition, 300MB on another, 200MB on another, and 50MB on another.

In reality, if you had not broken up the drive into so many smaller pieces, you would have 650MB. But because this is split up, you have tons of wasted space that cannot be used.

Separate physical drives with one partition on each would be the ideal way to go.

btw, one reason the slave drive is not showing up may be due to it being defined as an active primary partition... it may be setup with the same drive letter (in this case c as your master drive.