Problem seeing my created partitions

[Thomas]

On the screen shown in the second picture, click on the Quantum 4GB drive and see what happens. If a requester pops up telling you that drives have been added or removed, let it save the changes.

Bye,
Thomas

[Thomas]

As a start you could give the partitions some meaningful names. For example these are mine: Workbench, Work, Text&Data, Programming, Games, Internet, Emulators, Music, Graphics, Pictures, Backup, Cache and CD-Images.

Bye,
Thomas

[Thomas]

what actually caused the partitions not to be shown?

Performance optimization. Each HDD has a flag "this is the last HDD" in its partition table. At boot time, when the SCSI driver reads the partition table of each drive and sees this flag, it does not continue to search for other HDDs. In your case (without the new HDD), the 4GB HDD had this flag set and thus the CD-ROM drive was not checked for partitions. This feature should decrease delays at boot time.

Now with the new HDD connected, the flag on the old HDD had to be reset so that the new HDD is found at boot time (now the new HDD has the flag set, it's done automatically by HDToolbox).

Bye,
Thomas