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i recently bought a new hard drive which i tried to split in three parts with fdisk but cause i only managed to get c: d: drives without e: drive i only made one drive c: which was 26% of the capasity of the hd.after installing win98 i installed w2k and with its install program i made d: e: drives which was actually E: F: drives cause the D: drive is cdrom.So now in
win2k there is hd drives c: e: and f: the CD is d: drive but in w98 hd drives are c: d: and e: the CD-rom is in f: drive.so i think this would cause troubles if i dont do somethink.the E: F: drives are empty so sould i use fdisk once more and would it erase the files in c: drive as well?what sould i do?
 
If I am understanding what you said, I fail to see any sort of problem with your current configuration. What exactly is it that you are worried about?
 
well scandisk(w98) has now many times found a error in d: e: but i didnt read the message completely it said also that probeply the disk is formated.and later comes message saying also that drive's boot area contains important information that is damaged or invalid. which can cause Windows to report the drive's free space incorrectly or slowly. ScanDisk repairs the boot area by recording the correct values in this area.the 2 drives are still empty.so is this normal?
 
It is never normal for any drive to report errors via scandisk. Does the WinXP scandisk pick up the same errors?
 
aug1516 said:
It is never normal for any drive to report errors via scandisk. Does the WinXP scandisk pick up the same errors?
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with win2k there has not been any problems i have run scandisk in win2k too and there has not been any errors.
 
yeah i fix it i used fdisk in w98 and deleted d: e: in w2k e: f: then i removed cd on my computer and i used fdisk again in w98 and made d: e: drives witch bought showed as d: e: also in win2k then i put cd back on, which is now F: drive in w98&w2k.now i dont have any problems with scandisk in w98.in fdisk there is a option to put one partion active what does that mean and what it does?
 
a partition must be active to be able to boot to it,
only one (primary) partition (per physical HDD) can be made Active at one time

Active Partitions & Bootmanagers
Only primary partitions can be used to boot the operating system, and of these, only the specific primary partition that is set to be bootable. DOS calls the bootable partition the active partition. Only one partition can be set active at a time because otherwise, the master boot record does not know to which volume's boot code to give control of the boot process when the machine is turned on
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per HDD, but then if you had more than one HDD and they each had active partitions youd select which HDD to give control to in the BIOS boot order (HDD0, HDD1, HDD2)
by default HDD0 is the Master HDD (Device0) on the Primary IDE Channel (IDE0)

Primary & Extended Partitions, and Logical Drives

Definition of System and Boot Partition
System Partition
The system partition refers to the disk volume containing hardware specific files needed to boot Windows (NTLDR, BOOT.INI, and so on). On Intel x86-based machines, it must be a primary partition that has been marked active. On x86 machines, this is always drive 0, the drive the system BIOS searches during system boot for the operating system.
Boot Partition
The boot partition contains the Windows operating system files (usually \WINNT) and it support files (usually \WINNT\SYSTEM32). It can be the same partition as the system partition. but doesnt have to be, with for instance one of the installs in a dual boot
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