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Al Thompson <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 31 Jan 2005 15:29:36 -0800
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David Gillett wrote:


>   The "drive letters" that show up in Windows Explorer actually refer to
> "partitions" on hard drives; you haven't created any yet on the new drive.
>
>   There's a DOS-level utility for this, called FDISK.  I'm not sure whether
> ME can run this in a DOS window, or whether you actually need to reboot to
> DOS to be able to run it.
>

I can run FDISK in a dos window to view different drives and partition info., ( WinME ) but I've never tried
partitioning this way. I don't know if that's possible.

Al Thompson

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