From: Bill Morrow - http://thinkpads.com (penzance_at_icanect.net)
Date: Mon Sep 21 1998 - 03:20:41 EDT
sorry to be brief, but use fduisk and make the 2nd HDD an EXTENDED DOS
drive..
this is one reason i favor single partitions on HDD's.. :-)
Rich_Chong_at_mail.share.org wrote:
>
> >You'd wind up with:
> >
> >Drive 1 = (primary) = C: (logical) = E: (logical) = F:
> >Drive 2 = (primary) = D: (logical) = G:
> >
> >Yes, I know it's stupid - doing it this way means adding a
> >second drive changes the letters on the first drive's logical
> >drives, making programs and OSes on your first drive
> >unusuable. But tell Microsoft that.
>
> The way around that is to not create a primary partition on the second
> drive. But FDISK wont let you do that, so another tool must be used, like
> OS/2's fdisk or Partition magic. Is there a simpler DOS based utility to do
> this?
>
> Rich
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