When you add a second hard drive, you can make the entire second drive an
extended Dos partition with fdisk, and your drive letters will stay in
order. Your primary will be c:, the extended partition on the first drive
will remain d:, then extended partitions on drive 2 will e:, f:, etc.
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----- Original Message -----
From: Casema Internet <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 1999 6:42 AM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Accessing Multiple drives
> If you create 2 primary partitions on 2 harddrives ( 2 on
> one wouldn't be possible using fdisk) the first primary
> partition would be called c: (on drive 1) the second drive
> d:(on drive 2) the first extended partition (on drive 1)
> would get the next free drive letter e: the primary (or
> first if you like) partitions will always get the first
> available letters of the alphabet.
> drive 1 (primary) c: (extended) e:
> drive 2 (primary) d:
>
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