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Logical Drives in WindowsME

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by frank krebs

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I installed WindowsME on my home machine, and partitioned 2GB for the primary partition, and planned to go in after loading the OS to add logical drives. I booted to DOS, and from F-Disk I added three logical drives D:, E: & F:, I formatted each ofthe drives, using the boot disk I made from WindowsME. When I boot to DOS, I can see and use the drives, but when I boot to ME, I can't see the drives. I have been unable to find anything on the Microsoft site. Any suggestions?

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by sprocket01

Heres a thought... delete all logical drives under dos then use a third party disk partioning utility such as partition magic. Which runs in a gui system. this may correct the problem. like i said just a thought

by frank krebs

I don't have partition magic, and am unwilling to spend the money. It should work through the OS. I do appreciate your answer. I ended up blowing the OS away, and rebuilding with the entire drive as c:\

by glanz

Sproket01's solution worked for me. I had the same problem, but you must use a recent version of Partition Magic or another..... There are little glitches that crop up when you use a Pre-Me partitioner. I don't know why but they just do. I had to re-format the disk completely because a a freeze caused by an outdated partitioner.

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