you can just go ahead and use drive letter d: to partition and format it, then copy your files to it, it will become the C: drive when you
remove the USB key to boot from the hard disk. Since you do not run
the FBA until it is drive c:, no problem!
Re: How to force discarding of invalid cached partition contents? ... If I were doing a format then I'd include a call to IOCTL_DISK_UPDATE_PROPERTIES. ... According to MSDN this call is necessary when doing something like changing a FAT32 partition to NTFS, but my recent experiments make me wonder if Windows would still corrupt the resulting partition anyway. ... When the partition has a drive letter, Windows Explorer and/or some other parts of Windows XP read and cache a portion of the contents. ... (microsoft.public.development.device.drivers)
Re: Cant Transfer Video, Please Help. ...Partition it, format it and assign it a drive letter.... > video camera...... (microsoft.public.windowsxp.video)
Re: New HD isnt showing ... >Please PLEASE tell me where in Disk Management to assign the drive letter to ... I normally use Partition Magic for this, but from your posts and your ... Not sure of the details with Disk Management, but you want to tell it to use ... Once you have the logical drive created, then you can format it. ... (alt.sys.pc-clone.dell)
