Hot to get rid of non-dos ghost drives on main window

[pneron]

BTW: What version of WB is that "Ghostbuster"?

[paul1981]

I do not "see" any of these options to del or remove the drives.

I have attached a screen shot HDToolbox. As per previous messages, I formatted a 300Gig drive into 7 active partitions. The "Ghost" drives I suspect have to do with perhaps "non-dos" areas of the drive ?

Unpartitioned areas of the drive will not show up as anything on Workbench. Only mounted partitions will appear on Workbench. Your NDOS? partitions must be ones without filesystems (correctly) installed, or they need formatting.

In the photo, the checkbox for 'Automatically mount this partition' is behind the Change button. So for each partition you'd want to hide you'd select the partition, then press the Change button, then untick the aforementioned checkbox.

[pneron]

In the photo, the checkbox for 'Automatically mount this partition' is behind the Change button

Thank Paul but are you referring to my photo or Mike's because I do not see that option on the HDTool?

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

BTW: What version of WB is that "Ghostbuster"?

Running 3.9 + BB1-4 + about 25 years spent acquiring other hacks & patches and customizing.

[kolla]

In the photo, the checkbox for 'Automatically mount this partition' is behind the Change button

Thank Paul but are you referring to my photo or Mike's because I do not see that option on the HDTool?

Mark a partition and click on "change", and you will see a tick for "Automount", remove that and the partitions will not be attempted mounted by the OS, and will not appear as NDOS on Workbench.

Out of curiosity - why do you have them in the first place?

EDIT: OK, I read this thread some more - something is clearly very weird with your system. Do you have more hard drives attached?

[paul1981]

In the photo, the checkbox for 'Automatically mount this partition' is behind the Change button

Thank Paul but are you referring to my photo or Mike's because I do not see that option on the HDTool?

Your photo, a bit above the Cancel button.

[pneron]

Thank you Paul, I will review tonight when I get home from work.

Also, to Kolla's question: As per previous thread, I partitioned a 300Gig drive into a number drives (I have a lot of Audio files and need the space). It was suggested that I needed to use the advance feature and manually enter cylinder numbers into the input fields. I calculated what that was and entered the value.

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

As a thought, before you get too far along, try coping a number of large files around from partition to partition.  Check for any write errors that might indicate potential future issues (such as Mask or MaxTransfer values being incorrect, etc.).  Just a bit of homework for ya!  

[pneron]

yep ...did a bunch of these test/activities when I set up the drives. I even ran Studio16/B&P off all the drives to test the "integrity" of the drives

[paul1981]

Thank you Paul, I will review tonight when I get home from work.

Make sure that when you select the partition with the mouse from the graph that you don't move the partition around as that would move the partition start and end points causing data loss of that partition (if settings then saved). Press Cancel and go into it again if this happens. This shouldn't happen though as there should be no gaps if partitioned correctly (no wasted space) thus no possibility of movement on the graph. There may be a shortcut key to select different partitons like TAB or something.

[pneron]

WOW...did not know that. Thanks.