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by reederhb

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using win98 and after installing seagate 120GB HD partitioned 12 equal drives, I only can "see" 4 drives. How to I get win 98 explorer to "see" the other 8 partitions?
I am using FAT32.

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by cg it

here's a link to a primer on IDE hard drive partitioning. http://fdisk.radified.com/

Scott Mueller has an excellent book Upgrading and Repairing PCs that describes the limitations of primary partitions and logical drives in Extended partitions.

The Chas or Hal on this forum can provide you with the details and limitations on partitioning using FAT16 and FAT32

Note: IDE drives can have a maximum of 4 primary partitions per physical hard drive. You can have an extended partition using

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