Stymied by IDEfix97

[AmigaMance]

My first question is: If I do not have a CD-ROM drive is it safe to cancel the IDEfix installation at that point?

 I think not. The point of using IDEFix is to patch the scsi.device to overcome the 4GB barrier.
 You don't need it in case you plan to utilize only the first 4GBs of your HD.

[AmigaMance]

You shouldn't focus on IDEFix right now, you know.. I don't think that it is responsible for the invisible partiotion problem but anyway. The CD device number is usually 1.
 And a more certain way to see if IDEFix is really intalled is to open a CLI window and type: version full scsi.device . If the date is more recent than 1992, it's installed.

 Between steps 9 and 10, you could try to quick format the partition inside the HDToolBox. Also, make sure that the partition is set as "Automount".