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"Mark C. Barron" <[log in to unmask]>
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PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 29 Aug 1999 21:56:56 -0700
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>Bill Cohane wrote:> > > >
> > I would suggest that you boot from a Win98 Startup diskette
> > and run FDISK. Use this to create a partition on your new hard
> > drive.
>
>   I have added a second Western Digital drive for storage on other
>machines in the past and don't remember doing this but I gave it a
>shot.The only drive it would let me FDISK was C: which has my OS on it
>with all my files.I tried typing in the next available drive letter
>and also D: but got a bad parameter message.
>  Is there a way around this.

When you run FDISK, look for an option #5 on the menu.  This option will
allow you
to select which hard drive to work on.

If option #5 isn't available, then something is wrong with the drive.

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