HDD Help

[18114]

Hard Drive help!

Hey Guys,

I recently brought an HDD and I told my friend to partition it for me. So that it has one 27 GB partition and the other 11 GB. Its a 40 GB HDD.

Now, when I try to install it on my XP Home computer. It detects only the 27 GB partition. I went to DOS mode and formatted with partition magic and tried to delete the 10 GB partition. But nothing works. Any ideas as to

 

[DaveSimmons]

For the 10 GB you must create an extended partition and then a logical drive. If you create a second "primary" partition instead it might not work.

Also, you may need to go into XP's disk manager to get it to see / add the extra partition.

Or you could just delete everything in FDISK or partition magic or disk manager and start over.

 

[18114]

Hi,

Well I already have some stuff stored on the 27 GB HDD. That I won't be able to burn onto CDs.

Sorry for sounding noobish, but where can I find the XP disk manager, I don't see an option in Control Panel.

 

[bigboxes]

Start --> Control Panel --> Perfomance and Maintenance --> Administrative Tools --> Computer Management --> Storage --> Disk Management