PowerQuest PartitionMagic Pro 7.0

[LuDaCriS66]

I have 2 hard drives on this computer. 1 IBM 60GXP 60GB and 1 Quantum Fireball 20gb. I want to partition the Quantum drive to 3gb for an OS and the rest for games and applications. The problem is, the Quantum drive is on slave. When I want to make a partition on that drive, PartitionMagic asks if I will want to install an OS in that partition in the future. I want to install Win98se on that partition but because the drive is currently on slave, it won't let me choose Win98se as a choice. Will choosing "No" when it asks if I want to install an OS in that partition so that it can make a regular partition work? Will I be able to install an OS in that partition? I assume I just have to make that partition bootable? I'm lost here. Any help is appreciated. Thanks

 

[zzzz]

don't go through any wizards. Just make a primary and a secondary partition and logical drive(s) in the secondary partition.

 

[DaveSimmons]

I never use the wizards in PM but all you need at this time is to create a normal FAT32 primary partition (instead of logical). If you don't want it visible as drive D: yet then make it "hidden" until you're ready to switch that drive to being your master drive (un-hide it just before you switch).

 

[fow99]

<< Will I be able to install an OS in that partition? I assume I just have to make that partition bootable? I'm lost here. Any help is appreciated. Thanks >>



I suppose what PM doing is trying to figure out if it needs to set that partition active or not. Of course you can't let it do that. Just making the partition normally would be fine.

ps. If you are only trying to create a new partition without resizing, etc, why not using the dos fdisk?

 

[LuDaCriS66]

<< I suppose what PM doing is trying to figure out if it needs to set that partition active or not. Of course you can't let it do that. Just making the partition normally would be fine.
ps. If you are only trying to create a new partition without resizing, etc, why not using the dos fdisk?
>>



Well, I would want to set that hard drive as master on another computer so I would install Win98se on it. I would use Fdisk but I have data on the drive that I want to keep and I thought using PM would be better than backing everything up and using Fdisk.