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by matt5968

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If you have a windows os with either 2 hard drives or one with 2 partions and either rebuild the master drive or rebuild the c drive partion will it then regonize the second hard drive or partion d...

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by mbarakt

yes it will recognize as long as cabling are connected correctly and partion are 100 % configure properly.

by mbarakt

yes it will recognize as long as cabling are connected correctly and partion are 100 % configure properly.

by rcom

The changes to the C drive will not affect the second partition. So you can reformat the C drive and leave the D alone if that's what you mean

by thechas

Not sure what you are asking.

By default, Windows assigns hard drive letters as follows:

Primary IDE master, primary DOS partition C:
Primary IDE slave, primary DOS partition D:
Secondary IDE master, Primary DOS partition E:
Logigal drives on primary IDE master in order
logical drives on primary IDE slave in order
Logical drives on Secondary IDE master in order

Followed by any IDE removable media drives CD, ZIP, Superdisk.

In XP, that is the 'default' when you set up a system.When you add a new drive, it is added after the last removeable drive.

Hope this helps.

Chas

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