Re: Help! I have a secondary hd that failed.

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From: Dave Patrick (mail_at_Nospam.DSPatrick.com)
Date: 09/27/04 

Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 08:55:02 -0600

Ok, this was a little confusing since you mentioned failure of the secondary
hard drive. After you replace the drive you can partition, format and assign
drive letters within the Disk Management snap-in.
Start|Run|diskmgmt.msc 

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"Joe" wrote:
| Dave,
|
| My partition setup is very simple.  The original
| installation configuration was two fat32 partitions, one
| per each hard drive, consuming the entire hard drives
| respectively.  The primary hard drive has its partition
| set to active and the O/S was installed on the primary
| hard drive.  Is this enough information for you to assist
| me?

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