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Lim Wei Siong Vincent <[log in to unmask]>
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PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 5 Nov 1999 09:16:45 +0800
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Have you format the E: drive?  Your mail only mentioned formating the 4 gig drive but
not the second partition on your 4 gig drive.  Formating 4GB != Formating 2GB (1st
Part) + Formating 2GB (2nd Part).

Doug & Sharon White wrote:

>         I recently upgraded an older P166 computer for a friend.  I added more
> memory and a higher capacity hard drive.
>
>         However, the "new" drive was a 4.2 gig drive formatted with Win98 (I
> removed from another computer).  His machine had a 2 gig drive with Win95
> on it.
>
>         I reformatted the 4gig drive to remove the Fat32 formatting and then made
> two 2 gig partitions to make it consistent with the Win95 partition
> limitation.  I then re-installed Win95 on it and installed the drive as the
> primary drive.
>
>         I then set the old 2 gig drive as a slave drive.
>
>         When I first installed the 4 gig drive with Win98 still on it, both drives
> were visible and accessible from Explorer.
>
>         But when I reformatted the 4 gig drive to Win95 (to be consistent with the
> older drive that has all his old files on it), Explorer "sees" the two new
> partitions as drive "C" and "D" and it "sees" the old drive as drive "E"
> but drive "E" cannot be accessed.  Drive "E" is visible but Explorer shows
> it as "0" bytes and won't access the drive.
>
>         What do I need to do to get Win95 to "see" and access drive "E"?

--
Lim Wei Siong Vincent


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