In a message dated 08/06/2004 7:00:56 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
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<< (This may sound dumb, but how does my system know what letters to give the
 new hard drive when I tell it to format and partition and all that?  It's
 sort of like chicken and egg time to me.)
  >>
Diane the system assigns drive letters by where the drive is
attached and whether its a master or slave position. I believe it
goes C: primary master D: secondary master E: primary slave
F: secondary slave.

Dennis Dittmar
Maspeth NY 11378

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