Thanks for the responses to my questions.  I sent this message originally
Friday night but it didn't get to the list until today.  I spent a long
night Friday night.  The drive I was trying to install was a drive I had
been using to clone my primary hard drive to as a backup.  I think it was
marked active but of course couldn't be since it was going to be E: in the
new system.  Fdisk wouldn't touch it.  Partiton magic actually crashed
trying to reformat... Strange.  I ended up pulling out an old MaxBlast disk
that I had and using it to destroy the partiton and start over.  As soon as
I did that all was well.  I guess I should have tried the MaxBlast a lot
earlier. The drive runs fine as either master or slave on the secondary IDE.
As information, I'm using the 3rd drive for Win2000.  It's a really easy
install and a really nice OS if you want an opinion.

Thanks again for the support.

Ben Moore

----- Original Message -----
From: "Twin*.*Star" <
Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2000 4:38 PM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Problem Adding hard dirve part 2


> How are the drives on the primary controller and the Maxter configured,
i.e.
> WRT fdisk. Are they primary partitions, combinations of primary and
logical
> and/or logical only?
>

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