A bit strange partition problem with PM (W98)

[simpatico]

I just got a nice Little Rig made my NEC and it has a w98se installed , I wanted to "clean it up a bit" and free some drive space,
it has only a 13 GB drive, but before I do the cleaning I need to Ghost the drive,
(just in case something goes wrong) so I installed PM and proceeded to setup a partition of 2.69 GB Fat 32,
after it shows the partition etc and OK the final 3 steps and after it reboot,
the next screen it proceed to install the drive letters change.
Well after all the steps are completed I'm supposed to have a new logical active partition , yes!
NO nothing is showing up in explorer I other words no partition has been created.
I've tried this several times with the same results.
I've done this with PM a billion times on different Rigs but I've never seen this problem,
I've checked the BIOS to see if there is something in there that could cause this , but it seen all normal there the boot sequence etc etc.
I could use fdisk to create a partition but I don't intend to. reason? I don't like it! and it's too riscked...


<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by simpatico on 04/05/05 09:07.</FONT></P>

[BertImmenschuh]

Usually the only partition on a hard drive can be resized downward by PM to create unallocated space on the hard drive. Then an Extended partition can be created in that new space and one or more Logical drives created in the new Extended partition. Then each new Logical can be formatted and will then show up in the Operating System.

After PM has reduced the size of the main partition it's possible for FDISK to be used to create the Extended partition and Logical drives. Just have to be careful not to delete the first partition.

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[simpatico]

Bert, thx it sound like you're not familiar with PM one don't need to do all of that, PM does it for you in 3 steps.
So there is no need for fdisk or do anything, I've done it a 'few' times before.
If you're familiar with PM 8.0 or any PM versions for that matter, to be more exact out of a 12.9 gb primary drive,
all I try to do is to create a 2.6 logical partition with fat 32,
once that is done the rest PM does it automatically,
it reboot to dos and goes to the steps of checking the drive for errors and then creating the drive space etc
and the final step is reassigning the drive letters and it's done, not in this case though! /images/forums/icons/smile.gif

[cmon]

Did you use pm again to see if any partitions were created ?

Keyboard error or no keyboard present


press F1 to continue ; Del to enter setup

[report_2]

"...not in this case though!"

You might want to try fdisk'ng the unallocated space to create the extended partition so that PM can create the logical drive "in this case".

[BertImmenschuh]

simpatico, I am familiar with PM [have it on one computer] but was giving a second scenario one could use to accomplish the same goal [maybe a bit easier] but failed only to identify it as such and it was not understood that way.

<font color=blue>Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.</font color=blue> <font color=green>Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.</font color=green>

[simpatico]

Bert thank you, I've tried from dos with PM boot desks and still won't do the resize thing, it must be a BIOS settings , it's a darn strange affair , I never had this issue before, after all it's not really a very important effort.
I did get around this by hooking up a spare drive and Ghosting images there /images/forums/icons/smile.gif

<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by simpatico on 04/11/05 09:23.</FONT></P>