cfdisk problem

[PeterP]

Help! I just created an ext2 partition on my second hard drive but it was a dos16 filesystem beforehand and now it's not recognised by anything. I did see the message about checking out help files if you are converting from dos16 but the note I wrote has disappeared amongst all my other notes. Can anyone tell me where to look for help or what to do?
Thanks, Peter.

[Bradmont2]

Did you reboot after using cfdisk? The system will need to be rebooted to re-read the partition table before you can use the new partitions.

[PeterP]

Yeah, no go. If I 'cfdisk /dev/hdc' I get a
'FATAL ERROR: Bad signature on partition table' message. There was an important message for people creating ext2 from dos16 but I've lost the reference. I seem to recall it was for a microsoft help page so I'll head off and search around there for awhile. Please do give us a yell if you think of anything though. Cheers, Peter.

[PeterP]

OK, things are moving along....I've got it back to being a dos16 partition; it just won't do anything from there. If anyone happens to read this, do you know why I can't convert my dos hard drive to ext2? None of the man pages for fdisk or cfdisk mention this problem...they just talk about what to do to create a dos part'n from an ext2, not the other way around.
Anyone with this problem in the future can email me at ptpi@yahoo.com if you want to know where things go from here. I WILL find a solution.
Peter.