[TriLUG] Linux on Toshiba laptop not recognizing 2nd hard disk!

[Phillip Rhodes]

> 
> I'd try it anyway.  If nothing else, there may be an informative error
> message waiting for you.  The special block devices already exist (as you
> probably already know) in /dev for hdc1 through hdc32 regardless of whether
> such partitions actually exist on the attached device.
> 

Never mind, I figured out what was going on.  Win2K has the drive
flagged as a "dynamic disk", which is some microsoft abomination
that "borrows" filesystem type 0x42 from which was used by
SFS. Hence, fdisk -l identifies the drive as being formatted
as SFS.

And it only shows one partition, because apparently
this win2k dynamic disk business creates one huge partition
on the disk, and then manages the space to create what could
be considered "virtual partitions," something similar to the old
extended partition deal.

So my task now becomes figuring out how to revert the disc to a
"basic" disc.  Right now disc manager has that option grayed out,
which I'm presuming is because there is data on the drive.  :-(

Thanks,

Phillip R.

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