Problem installing a second IDE 15GB drive

[cehofer]

I have an Amiga 4000 OS3.9.  I have a 500M SCSI drive with System and Work partitions.  I have a 4G IDE with three more partitions.  I am trying to install a second 15G IDE drive to replace the 4G.  I wanted to create 4 partitions of 3 to 4 Gig each and transfer the data.  However, I can see the drive no problem and create the partitions.  When I reboot, I don't see the drives.  I used HD Toolbox in the begining but I changed to the HD install Tool 6.9 and I was able to format only 2 partitions and I get an error that the 3rd partition is not validated.  The only way I am able to see the first 2 partitions after reboot is to use the mounter tool.  In the HD tool it the "automount" is checked.  I also unchecked the "bootable" checkbox.

I have FFS V45.9 and SCSI.device 43.x.  From what I have read that is good enough.  I have another 4000 with a 40G running OS3.9 and I have 3 partitions on that without a problem.  Is there a number of the HD partitions you can have mounted at one time?  Is there a command to "validate" the new drive?  I got this drive out of an old windows machine.  The drive is good.

[cehofer]

Yes I am running boingbag 2.  I want to say it is 43.43, but I'll have to look at it.  I will upgrade it to 43.45 and let you know.  

Thanks

[cehofer]

First, last night I didn't come here to see I had more responses.  Ok, I patched it to 43.45 no problem there.   I have read conflicting things between using HDToolbox and HDInsTool before saying HDInstTools is better and HDToolbox had issues.  I have read before to only use quick format on large drives as well.  Anyway, I did get the "some drives have changed or been added" but  I cancelled that.  I guess if I would have done that, then I would have been able to see my new drive after reboot.  I was able with the mounter to mount, format and copy the contents from one drive to the other.  I removed the first HDD, rebooted and the new partitions are there.  However, WB is acting very slow.  At one point in time I couldn't right click and rename the drives.  I don't know what's up with that.  It was working fine until I added the new drive only.  I had three partitions on the old drive.  So if I had Productivity on the old, I created Productivity1.  After I installed the new drive, I tried to rename Productivity1 to Productivity but WB is acting up now.  I think I am going to start over and only use the HDToolbox. And do as Thomas suggested.