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Nathan W

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partition magic (again)
« on: June 01, 2005, 10:25:05 AM »
So yesterday I repartitioned my entire 2 hard disks and formatted etc. (because of a previous issue with partition magic already). I'll list everything possible that I can tell you, just so we can be sure. Anyway, I used fdisk, deleted all previous partitions, created 2 partitions on each hard drive ((2 hard drives)- with the intention of having an OS partition as C: (5 gigs or so), the rest free space. second hard drive i had mostly free space and a small partition for the page file. by the way, should I have formatted the drives while only one partition occupied the whole drive instead of re-partitioning and formatting each smaller one? (nevermind, i'm just completely stumped) anyway so i install windows, everything is fine, windows recognizes all of my partitions, but i decided i wanted to re-size a couple of the partitions a bit, maybe add one extra partition, etc. i installed partition magic, first on drive C: with windows, just because i thought it might avoid potential problems in some way, open the program to edit my setup, and it recognizes only one partition out of the 4, the windows C: partition. nothing else is there, all of my other hard drive is "unallocated" and the other partition on drive C: is god knows where, but it only lists the free space that is left on the small partition of drive C:. The total of the hard drive is listed, but it only lists under free space the 1 gig or so left in the windows C: partition of the drive. Anyway, why does windows recognize all of my harddrives but partition magic has no clue? Maybe something to do with the page file being located on a different hard drive? i'm clueless...

Nathan W

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partition magic (again)
« Reply #1 on: June 01, 2005, 10:30:50 AM »
Oh sorry, here's the stats:

the first hard drive (with windows drive C: and the other lost partition):
15 gig western digital 7200 rpm

the second hard drive (that is listed as having no partitions whatsoever in partition magic):
27 gig maxtor 7200 rpm

I'm using Windows XP.

I have only the first (western digital) hard drive connected to IDE-1 as master.

The second (maxtor) hard drive is connected to IDE-2 with the CD-ROM (i forget which is master and which is slave, maybe the problem is the HD is slave and it is holding the pagefile?)

and the burner shouldn't have anything to do with any of this i guess cuz it's hooked up SCSI through an adapter card.