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I have to format a new harddrive. The drive is already
physically installed in my computer and is already setup
in my BIOS as the primary slave. I already have a "C"
drive (set as primary master in BIOS) and I want the drive
to be my "D" drive. Two questions:
(1) Should I create a "Primary" partition or an "Extended"
partition? I think I want to create a "Primary"
partition, but I wanted to double-check that this is
correct. I wanted to make sure that this new drive can be
a "Primary" partition even though it is the slave drive,
not the master drive.
(2) When the New Partition Wizard tells me to assign a
drive letter, it doesn't give me "D" as an option. The
first letter available is "F." I guess this is because my
CD burner is currently "D" and my external harddisk
is "E." How should I go about assigning the drive letter
if I really want this slave drive (my second Maxtor
internal drive) to show up as my "D" drive?
Thanks in advance for any help!
--Doug
I have to format a new harddrive. The drive is already
physically installed in my computer and is already setup
in my BIOS as the primary slave. I already have a "C"
drive (set as primary master in BIOS) and I want the drive
to be my "D" drive. Two questions:
(1) Should I create a "Primary" partition or an "Extended"
partition? I think I want to create a "Primary"
partition, but I wanted to double-check that this is
correct. I wanted to make sure that this new drive can be
a "Primary" partition even though it is the slave drive,
not the master drive.
(2) When the New Partition Wizard tells me to assign a
drive letter, it doesn't give me "D" as an option. The
first letter available is "F." I guess this is because my
CD burner is currently "D" and my external harddisk
is "E." How should I go about assigning the drive letter
if I really want this slave drive (my second Maxtor
internal drive) to show up as my "D" drive?
Thanks in advance for any help!
--Doug