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Cannot Get DOS To See Second HDD

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Hi all!
I have been trying to get DOS to recognise my second HDD, it is the slave on IDE0.
I am dual booting MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows XP

I have added more drive letters through config.sys, (i know this is unessecary now, but one boot disk program had it partitioned with many 2Gb partitions, which I thought I’d try)
I have partitioned the disk – a 20Gb Seagate- with one 1960mb partition, FAT16.
I have tried all sorts of methods to get DOS to see it – I can access C: and A: and CD-ROM, which is now F: but not any other letter.
XP sees the disk just fine. I partitioned the disk with several different boot programs and with windows, to no avail.

I was hoping to initially get the drive to show up in DOS 6.22 and then install DOS 7.10 on it.

Any help is much appreciated!!!!

Ben.

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      [1] Was it partitioned with DOS in this box as slave?

      [2] When DOS doesn’t see it, are you booted on the master?

      [3] Try this:

      fdisk /status

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