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Date: | Mon, 30 Aug 1999 01:27:20 -0400 |
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At a command prompt, type FDISK
See if you have four OR FIVE options.
If the second drive is being recognized by
"the system", there should be an option to
"Change current fixed disk drive".
"One" would be the current disk drive,
and you DO NOT want "One" in your case!!!
Change to "two", and start from the next menu.
The SAFEST way to Fdisk, is to remove all
drives you want to keep "as is" from the system.
That means some jumper changing, possible BIOS
changes for the hard drives, and booting from
a Start-up disk. If you are careful, the "easy" way
should be "good enough"... Rick Glazier
> 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.
> Thank you,
> Mike Bridges
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