QTParted Problem

[Chaos5lw]

Normally i use QTParted to format Hard Drives in my computer. Today i recieved a second hard drive which i am going to use for back-ups and started up QTParted to do the format (After first creating a partition in FDISK) and neither of my Western Digital drives were found by QTParted.

I could format the partition in Windows but it demands i do it NTFS but i want it to be FAT32.

Any ideas?

[nad]

Specifics please. What type of controller is it attached to and what, if any, are your boot messages concerning this drive?

And why would you use fdisk (windoze version?) to partition this drive before starting QTparted? After all, QTparted _is_ a partition editor.

[Chaos5lw]

Specifics please. What type of controller is it attached to and what, if any, are your boot messages concerning this drive?

And why would you use fdisk (windoze version?) to partition this drive before starting QTparted? After all, QTparted _is_ a partition editor.

Indeed it is but as QTParted would not see my drives i tried to use FDISK forgetting that FDISK would not format the partition as well (QTParted has spoiled me).

Drive one is connected to IDE1 as the master
Drive two is connected to IDE1 as the slave

On boot both drives are found, they are also both found in WinXP and knoppix itself.


EDIT: I have also noticed that QTParted wont show the Hard Drives in my other computer.

[nad]

Please post the relevent lines from your message log and double check the drive jumpers and cabling.

"On boot both drives are found, they are also both found in WinXP and knoppix itself. I have also noticed that QTParted wont show the Hard Drives in my other computer."

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It would help if you would explain your exact actions.

[Chaos5lw]

Please post the relevent lines from your message log and double check the drive jumpers and cabling.

"On boot both drives are found, they are also both found in WinXP and knoppix itself. I have also noticed that QTParted wont show the Hard Drives in my other computer."

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It would help if you would explain your exact actions.

Cables and jumpers are correct.

In Windows XP the drives are seen a C: and F:
In Knoppix they are seen as hda and hdb
In FDISK the drives are seen as 1 and 2
The POST lists both hard drives with the correct model numbers (as does windows xp which is currently running from the C drive as i type this)
SuSE 9.2 Live CD's partitioning tool found both drives as hda and hdb (for some reason it thought hdb has a FAT32 file system on it, must be cause i made the partition in FDISK)

When i open QTParted in Knoppix by going to Konsole and typing "qtparted" i just get the normal message about hdc being read-only and then when the main QTParted window opens it only lists hdc despite the fact that hda and hdb are shown on the Knoppix desktop (hdb is unmountable as it doesnt have a filesystem)

[nad]

At a command console, type the command: parted /dev/hda print

You may also try this for /dev/hdb .

By the way, you do know that you have to be root in order to modify the partition tables?

[Chaos5lw]

By the way, you do know that you have to be root in order to modify the partition tables?

Opps, and after using QTParted to format hard drives many times i go and forget the basics.

Thanks, thats sorted it.