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Subject:	Re: No drive letter
From:	Doug Simmons <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Mon, 10 Nov 2003 17:21:08 -0500
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Since the hard drive came from Win 95 (I'm presuming), it may have had
boot-up software to allow the use of larger drives than the Bios or OS
would normally allow it to use.  Many of the early Win 95 machines were
setup this way as larger hard drives came available. If so to access the
drive, it must be the boot device for the sector translations to work.

Doug

At 11/3/2003 08:29 AM, Annette Robart wrote:

>I attached a hard drive as a slave and it is recognized when the computer
>boots up. When I go into my computer the second hard drive is there also,
>but it is not assigned a drive letter so I can not access the drive.  I've
>never had this happen, what could be causing this? (win98)

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