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Hard Drive/Partition Predicament

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OK. I have an old Maxtor hard drive (8GB) and a WD (40GB)

Windows says there is no partition on the Maxtor, which I currently run Redhat 9 off of. BUT when I switch the boot sequence to the Maxtor I can sign into Linux to do ANYTHING normaly, EXCEPT see the WD hdd.

I tried formatting but no data was taken off. After I tried to format I then tried booting off the Maxtor and did. SO next was to reset the bios, so I did Optimized Defaults.

Partition Magic 8 sees the drive as bad and ALSO cannot format the drive. It said something about an MBR I think but I didnt understand what that meant.

Oh and whats the program I can test my hard drives with?
 
Well, Windows can't read Linux partitions you know...It makes sense that it'd think there's nothing on the Maxtor drive.

My question is: Did you partition the whole Maxtor drive to use Linux filesystems, or did you leave some unpartitioned space?

Also, in terms of Linux, it won't see your WD drive unless you mount the partitions.
 
Delete the partition that linux is using (ext2) and then repartition the drive with, say a windows bootdisk, and format it with ntfs (or fat32 if you like). Do this if (as I am assuming) you don't want anything to do with redhat anymore. If you want to dualboot linux/windows it gets more interesting and you're actually going to have to learn a bit about partitions/file systems...
 
Well I dont think u saw my problem ( I didnt click the links yet) I know that windows can read a linux partition. BUT, Partition Magic can. It told the that the drive was bad, but I could boot off the drive.

Anyway I fixed the problem, put the HDD in an old comp, deleted the partitions then formated and now im peachy. thanks for the help
 
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