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Hi, a new user here. I recently reinstalled Xandros Linux on my Eee PC from a previous install of Windows XP and for some reason the D: drive, which is 16 gigs, isn't showing up at all. It basically shows up as a zero byte drive. I never had this problem before when I first got the Eee as Xandros was already installed and both the C and D drive were fine. I asked about this over on the eeeuser.com forum and one person recommended I download a 45 meg program from the partedmagic.com website which I thought was a little much. I just want to re-partition and reformat the drive so that it shows up as a 16 gig drive. There must be some commands I can use in the Terminal to do this. Does anybody have any examples? Please remember I'm a newbie to Linux. :) I need to get this done quickly as I'm planning to sell the Eee PC later this week and I don't want to sell the computer to someone and he or she can't use the D: drive for their programs. Thanks.

So, if I understand your situation, you have a 4 GB internal flash drive (SSD) and a 16 GB secondary SSD. The first drive shows up as sda, and the second shows up as sdb, if you type 'sudo fdisk -l' into a terminal session asking for a list of attached drives. sda was originally set up as 4 partitions (sda1 sda2, sda3, sda4) while sdb can be set up any way you choose. Xandros for the Eee assigns single letter names comparable to Windows so migrating users will more easily recognize what they may be, but the letters are meaningless. D: is assigned to sdb when mounted. If sdb is shown but isn't formatted as you want, you can change it using existing tools, though the graphical tools you can install make it simpler. Try 'sudo cfdisk /dev/sdb' A table will come up showing the format of D: You can delete the partition, create a new one, and define it as ext2, ext3, or fat or otherwise. Write the new partition table to the disk. You can then use mkfs to format the disk (make a file system). Type 'mkfs -t ext2 /dev/sdb1' to create an ext2 file system on the first partition of sdb. After that you should be able to mount it 'mount -t ext2 /dev/sdb1 /mnt/D:' (Or reboot and see if it automounts) I think I got it right, but here is some info for reference. http://linux.die.net/man/8/fdisk http://linux.die.net/man/8/mkfs http://linux.die.net/man/8/mount