Partition problems on new WD drive.
I want to get a backup of my two 20GB mirrored RAID. I attached a shiny new
Western Digital Caviar 8MB cache 80GB drive (WD800JB) to the primary master. It showed up fine in the BIOS, recognised as 80GB. I used WD's DataLifeguard Windows software, but it couldn't find it, only the Windows (98SE) drive. It suggested using the DOS version. I changed it to primary slave, but still it didn't show up. I loaded the DOS version, told it I wanted the primary partition as 4.8GB, FAT32, the rest as the second partition, FAT32. It duly went ahead and formatted and partitioned the drive. When I checked it, it had four partitions, all FAT 'unknown' except one, which was FAT16. I decided I must have done something wrong, and redid it. I had the same problem, but this time it showed a primary master with squiggly letters under it, as well as my new drive. I told it to do it again all as one partition. It had all 80GB accounted for, but was still FAT16. I decided to use Partition Magic instead, but this showed the partition as BAD, with error 116. It had the option to reformat, but only as HFTS, NTFS or Linux ex1. I looked up error 116, but the remedy is to delete the partition - but I don't think I had this option. Help! -- Susan |
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