Phil C
December 6th 03, 08:25 PM
Thanks
Your answers have covered all of what I suspected.
>-----Original Message-----
>Ques 1: Probably because the drive was mounted at the
>time, which means your applications via windows remembers
>where everything is on that disk, unmounting it makes
>windows forget about the disk.
>
>Ques 2: XP doesn't use FDISK, and isn't available, FDISK
>uses FAT32. Instalation CD is the only root (thanks MS)!
>
>Ques 3: None, apart from what you mentioned.
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>I re-partitioned and formatted an axternal laptop hard
>>disk last night using windows xp management console.
>This
>>was smooth and virtually easy. I do have some questions
>>however.
>>1. When I right clicked to remove the existing
>partition,
>>I received an error message that the drive was in use
>and
>>could not do it. Yet it, after the error message it did
>>remove the existing partition.
>>2. fdisk and wi xp. I installed a new HD last week and
>re-
>>partioned and re-formatted the old last night. I still
>>could not find "fdisk" in win xp. I had it on a Win 98
>>startup disc. Where does it exist i XP? To install the
>new
>>drive, I used my Win xp cd and it walked me through the
>>complete process. Still can't find fdisk though.
>>3. I formatted the old hard drive as a basic disk using
>>NTFS file system. Other than the raid configurations,
>what
>>other differences does a "dynamic disk have over using a
>>hard drive as a basic disk?
>>
>>Also, thanks to everyone who helped me through this
>>process earlier by answering my posts and supplying me
>>with a wealth of knowledge, not to mention "Confidence".
>>
>>Thanks
>>Phil.
>.
>
Your answers have covered all of what I suspected.
>-----Original Message-----
>Ques 1: Probably because the drive was mounted at the
>time, which means your applications via windows remembers
>where everything is on that disk, unmounting it makes
>windows forget about the disk.
>
>Ques 2: XP doesn't use FDISK, and isn't available, FDISK
>uses FAT32. Instalation CD is the only root (thanks MS)!
>
>Ques 3: None, apart from what you mentioned.
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>I re-partitioned and formatted an axternal laptop hard
>>disk last night using windows xp management console.
>This
>>was smooth and virtually easy. I do have some questions
>>however.
>>1. When I right clicked to remove the existing
>partition,
>>I received an error message that the drive was in use
>and
>>could not do it. Yet it, after the error message it did
>>remove the existing partition.
>>2. fdisk and wi xp. I installed a new HD last week and
>re-
>>partioned and re-formatted the old last night. I still
>>could not find "fdisk" in win xp. I had it on a Win 98
>>startup disc. Where does it exist i XP? To install the
>new
>>drive, I used my Win xp cd and it walked me through the
>>complete process. Still can't find fdisk though.
>>3. I formatted the old hard drive as a basic disk using
>>NTFS file system. Other than the raid configurations,
>what
>>other differences does a "dynamic disk have over using a
>>hard drive as a basic disk?
>>
>>Also, thanks to everyone who helped me through this
>>process earlier by answering my posts and supplying me
>>with a wealth of knowledge, not to mention "Confidence".
>>
>>Thanks
>>Phil.
>.
>