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Message: [QUOTE="DJW, post: 14009254"] OK since I posted the first question I went back and partitioned as Primary Dos but I already had a hard drive in it as master with one other partition so C and D were taken. During reboot after I ran Fdisk I saw the make drive but it referred to it as D in all that text you get in Windows 98SE at boot up. It did not appear in My Computer. I thought if I went and tried to force its drive letter in the control panel I could. But only the two CD drives seem to let me change that. The place to change the letter was there but would not let me enter any letter. The two CD drives on the other ID buse were already G and H. So I then re-partitioned the drive as extended DOS partition. This time after reboot it was there in my computer as E then I right clicked on it and chose format and now I can use it. I need to go back and see how the other drive was jumped pretty sure it was not cable select but what is the option “single” drive master or something like that it might have as a configuration if the jumpers are set that way. I already once got a system hang up where it sounded and the access drive lamp just flashed like the hard drive actuator was caught in a loop of movement back and forth. Not sure which if not both hard drives it was happening too. Also my plan in the future was to unplug the master and re-jump the slave in question and re-plug in as master and install an OS. So now will that also mean to reformat as a Primary DOS partition before or right after I change things internally. Ih and can I reverse the drives and have that master as the slave or because it has been partitioned most likely as the primary a long time ago I would have to repartition and lose all the data on it. [/QUOTE]

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