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hard drive probs keep goin
Name: iron Date: January 17, 2002 at 16:08:59 Pacific
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continued from http://computing.net/windowsme/wwwboard/forum/18509.html
how would you use fdisk to count a slave drive as a partition of the first drive?
Name: w Date: January 17, 2002 at 19:24:35 Pacific
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haven't seen that work, if you have master set as master and slave as slave and gone into bios/setup and detected the drive ,then windows should see it as d: or next higher drive letter,if first drive is partitioned.
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