At 13:50 07/20/02, Peter Shkabara wrote:
>You had to have the E: drive "visible" in order to format it. Are you
>saying that you can format it but still have errors accessing it? Your
>posting seems to imply that the E: drive does not even appear. If it
>does not appear, then you can't format it. Which is the situation?
>
>-----Original Message-----
>I know this is "beating a dead horse..."
>I believe that I've done everything in the format process...
>
>     fdisk to partition the C drive (2 partitions C and E), and then
>format to format the E drive. I still don't have the E drive accessible
>to me.


Hi Marshall

What is D:? Is it your CDROM or is it on another hard drive.
If D: was your CDROM, it will get bumped up to another letter
when you create two partitions on your hard drive...and they'll
grab the letters C: and D:. The CDROM drive would become E:...
provided it was recognized.

Do you have two hard drives and your D: is on the 2nd hard
drive? In that case...

After you used FDISK to create C: (primary partition), did
you then have FDISK create an "Extended" partition and then
(another step) create a "Logical Drive" inside the new Extended
partition?

If you try and create a 2nd "primary" partition on your drive
(as compared to a logical drive in an extended partition),
Win9X is not real good at recognizing more than one primary
partition per drive. (This is actually against the rules for
Win9X. Even if it works, it can cause problems down the line.)

Regards,
Bill

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