I was setting up a computer with two drives in Win95b.
Both had primary partitions and were formatted (just) previously.
I turned #one off (None) in the Award BIOS.
I expected the first drive to be c:\, d:\  and the second drive to not be there.
The second drive showed up anyway as e:\, f:\
which indicates the BIOS did not pass the primary partition info to Windows.
Windows handled the second drive as a 100% logical (extended) drive.
And Yes, I have had instances when hard drives were running on software drivers
and bracketed themselves around a CD-ROM.  It is possible...
                 Rick Glazier

----- Original Message -----
From: "Patrick Black" > Before I installed 98 fdisk (in pure dos) wasn't showing the drive at all.
> There is no software overlay installed, and the BIOS isn't controlling it.
> After I isntalled thru the command line window I ran f disk and I showed the
> Maxtor drive.
>
> What I want to know is why this is possible. I thought Windows/DOS had to
> have some type of report thru the BIOS / or software overide to bea ble to
> set the drive up.  Plus I thought All hard drive stuff was set up befre CD
> drive letters????

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