>        The E: drive is the original 2gb drive that came with the computer.  I
>added the second 4gb drive to increase capacity.  The idea was to format
>the 4gb drive into two 2gb partions which became drive C: and D:.  Then the
>old drive was installed as a slave drive and marked as drive E:


Most likelk, because of the way disk are assigned, the original 2Gb disk now
sitting as the slace is actually D:, and the logical drive in the extended
partition of the 4Gb disk is now E:. If you never ran the DOS high level
format on it, then you will get the symptoms you describe.

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