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**loninappleton** · 01-09-2007, 02:08 PM

Fdisk is not cooperating with repartitioning a Seagate hard drive.

I know all data will be lost.

I want to be able to clone other 120Gb hard drives I have back and forth as
necessary. This means that the 160 has to be partioned down to 120Gb
in the main partition.

I have seen some guides such as the Radified Fdsik guide. It looks well-written
but I'm getting errors on the Windows ME version.

I've been practicing on an NTFS 15G drive before tacklling the big one.

I've had a problem using the percentage or mb size paramaters. The
fdisk just says there are partitions already made etc etc and I cannot do
anything to partition.

What's my problem?

I don't care if I have to reformat but I have to know where to
start without being frustrated by a lot of error code.

For instance: Using the floppy I have with fdisk, I cannot go down to
a directoy of drive C: the drive is not found. I don't know what the
deal is.

I've seen one system that works well in the Linux world. You just use
a slider to adjust partition size in QTParted. I don't know of anything like that
available as freeware in the Windows world.

Lets start with a known working version of fdisk that sees my c: drive.

Where do I get such a thing? Or can one be made through Windows2k?

01-09-2007, 02:08 PM	#1 (permalink)
loninappleton TSF Enthusiast Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 748 OS: Win2k, XP	Partition a 160Gb Seagate drive with fdisk Fdisk is not cooperating with repartitioning a Seagate hard drive. I know all data will be lost. I want to be able to clone other 120Gb hard drives I have back and forth as necessary. This means that the 160 has to be partioned down to 120Gb in the main partition. I have seen some guides such as the Radified Fdsik guide. It looks well-written but I'm getting errors on the Windows ME version. I've been practicing on an NTFS 15G drive before tacklling the big one. I've had a problem using the percentage or mb size paramaters. The fdisk just says there are partitions already made etc etc and I cannot do anything to partition. What's my problem? I don't care if I have to reformat but I have to know where to start without being frustrated by a lot of error code. For instance: Using the floppy I have with fdisk, I cannot go down to a directoy of drive C: the drive is not found. I don't know what the deal is. I've seen one system that works well in the Linux world. You just use a slider to adjust partition size in QTParted. I don't know of anything like that available as freeware in the Windows world. Lets start with a known working version of fdisk that sees my c: drive. Where do I get such a thing? Or can one be made through Windows2k?