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by casemaker

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Hi,
I have installed W2K on the master HDD and want to format the slave drive using the ntfs file system. I think the drive is bad but I want to see if I am doing things correct. Does the slave drive have an active partition as well as the master?Thanks
Mark

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by trurod70

Go to Computer Management and then click on Disk Management. You should see Disk 0 and Disk 1. Disk 1 is the slave. It wont have a partition on there until after you have formatted it and assigned it a drive letter.

by mydogownsme

Know...you only need the one active partition on the primary drive...the partition you are going to boot from.

by fonaset

To confirm the above go back to "fdisk" and check which on the drives has a letter "A". That "A" signifies the active drive. In this case, the slave that has not got an operating system installed cannot be active partition. If it was, your system would not have been able to boot up.

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