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partition problem

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smp

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Okay.. I've given up on the triple boot idea, I'm just not geeky enough to handle it. I just finished installing 98 (for the nth time) and I created one primary (using partition magic, dos version) fat 32 partition, that fills out the boot partition (the 8 gig).. I tried to make the rest of the free space fat 32 but it wouldn't give me that option.. Only HPFS, NTFS, Extended and unformatted. I went with extended. Now, I'm running 98 and it sees D: as a removable drive, which it isn't.. and it won't access it. This is 21 + gigs here.. how do I make it usable? (without paying sixty bucks or whatever for partition magic 6) thanks.
 
Ok, the extended thing is all right. Fdisk it from dos. there should be an option to create logical drives. create whatever size you want. It should format it to fat 32 then.
 
right now it looks like this;

c: FAT32 8000 active win98 primary
* 21000 none extended
* 21000 free space

IT's a 30 gig drive.. I don't understand why the extended is shown as being there, but then it's also free space..??? wierd.. but i'll try that. I can make a bunch of logicals in there right?
 
You can make up to three logical drives within an extended partition, and each of those logical partitions will be seen by windows as a separate 'drive' and be given its own drive letter. Each partition will then need to be formatted before it can be used..
 
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