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Name: Neal Date: August 27, 2003 at 07:47:22 Pacific OS: to be 98 CPU/Ram: athlon xp 2.1ghz 224mb
Comment:
I have 2 hard drives in my computer, a 40GB drive, and a 10 GB drive, C: and D: respsctively. I partition the 40GB drive into 30gb and 10gb. the 30 gb drive shows up as drive C:, and the old 10GB drive is drive D:, but the new 10GB drive is ignored. How can i make it drive D:, and make the old 10 GB drive drive E:??
Name: SkipCox Date: August 28, 2003 at 13:50:13 Pacific
Reply:
Did you format the drive you want to be D after you partitioned it?
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Response Number 2
Name: Brian HANLON Date: August 29, 2003 at 05:55:32 Pacific
Reply:
Neal; You probably have: a Primary Partition, and an Extended Partition on that 40Gb HDD at present. You'll have to use FDISK (or other Partitionong Software) to CREATE LOGICAL DRIVE(s) in the EXTENDED Partition. Then you can Format the Logical Drive(s) and use it (them).
Be aware of the fact that your CD Letter assignment will probably do the old waltz thing. - I usually FORCE the CD-R Letter Assignment to Q, with CD-RW set to R, DVD set to T and DVDRW set to W on Systems I build for people. That way HDD changes don't muck around with the CD Letter, and if someone talks to me of problems on Drive R, then I know that it is their CD-R.
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