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W95: Easiest way to differentiate logical vs. physical drives
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| smackedass 2002-08-27, 5:28 pm |
| Hello!
If I can't get to see the BIOS on a 95 box (didn't convince the client that
a reboot was necessary), what's the easiest/best way to see, on a 95 box, if
its multiple drives (in this instance, C:, D:, E:, and F are logical or
physical?
Yes, I could've taken the case off, but is there a way to tell, from either
DOS or the OS itself, whether or not these drives are logical or physical?
Thanks, again! Love you guys (girls)!
smackedass
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| Ken Briscoe 2002-08-27, 5:28 pm |
| Hop on into DOS and type "fdisk"...there should be an option to view the
drives, and it should tell you, with a little searching, if the drive is a
primary partition or logical partition. if it's a primary partition,
obviously it is the first partition on your drive (because you're using
win95, no dynamic disks...), and if it's logical, then there's the answer to
your question....how to tell logical from physical...hope that helped...
KB
"smackedass" <nospamkema@capecod.net> wrote in message
news ESa9.2929$N%4.290534@newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net...
> Hello!
>
> If I can't get to see the BIOS on a 95 box (didn't convince the client
that
> a reboot was necessary), what's the easiest/best way to see, on a 95 box,
if
> its multiple drives (in this instance, C:, D:, E:, and F are logical or
> physical?
>
> Yes, I could've taken the case off, but is there a way to tell, from
either
> DOS or the OS itself, whether or not these drives are logical or physical?
>
> Thanks, again! Love you guys (girls)!
>
> smackedass
>
>
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| Ken Briscoe 2002-08-27, 6:28 pm |
| Hop on into DOS and type "fdisk"...there should be an option to view the
drives, and it should tell you, with a little searching, if the drive is a
primary partition or logical partition. if it's a primary partition,
obviously it is the first partition on your drive (because you're using
win95, no dynamic disks...), and if it's logical, then there's the answer to
your question....how to tell logical from physical...hope that helped...
KB
"smackedass" <nospamkema@capecod.net> wrote in message
newsESa9.2929$N%4.290534@newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net...
> Hello!
>
> If I can't get to see the BIOS on a 95 box (didn't convince the client
that
> a reboot was necessary), what's the easiest/best way to see, on a 95 box,
if
> its multiple drives (in this instance, C:, D:, E:, and F are logical or
> physical?
>
> Yes, I could've taken the case off, but is there a way to tell, from
either
> DOS or the OS itself, whether or not these drives are logical or physical?
>
> Thanks, again! Love you guys (girls)!
>
> smackedass
>
>
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| Adam Leinss 2002-08-27, 6:28 pm |
| "smackedass" <nospamkema@capecod.net> wrote in
newsESa9.2929$N%4.290534@newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net:
> Hello!
>
> If I can't get to see the BIOS on a 95 box (didn't convince the
> client that a reboot was necessary), what's the easiest/best way
> to see, on a 95 box, if its multiple drives (in this instance, C:,
> D:, E:, and F are logical or physical?
Use a DOS system information utility like SA, SYSCHK, Astra or HWINFO.
Note all the physical drives it finds. Enumerate these in succession,
starting with C:. So if you see the computer has a Quantum drive and a
Samsung drive, you know that one is C: and one is D: (physical drives
are assigned drive letters before logical ones...so if you have a
logical drive D: and install a new drive, D: gets bumped to E: and D:
gets assigned to the new drive).
Of course, if you are doing this over the phone, my question would be
why would the client have to distinguish what letters are logical or
physical.
Adam
--
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm
not sure about the former. - Albert Einstein
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| Adam Leinss 2002-08-27, 7:28 pm |
| "smackedass" <nospamkema@capecod.net> wrote in
newsESa9.2929$N%4.290534@newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net:
> Hello!
>
> If I can't get to see the BIOS on a 95 box (didn't convince the
> client that a reboot was necessary), what's the easiest/best way
> to see, on a 95 box, if its multiple drives (in this instance, C:,
> D:, E:, and F are logical or physical?
Use a DOS system information utility like SA, SYSCHK, Astra or HWINFO.
Note all the physical drives it finds. Enumerate these in succession,
starting with C:. So if you see the computer has a Quantum drive and a
Samsung drive, you know that one is C: and one is D: (physical drives
are assigned drive letters before logical ones...so if you have a
logical drive D: and install a new drive, D: gets bumped to E: and D:
gets assigned to the new drive).
Of course, if you are doing this over the phone, my question would be
why would the client have to distinguish what letters are logical or
physical.
Adam
--
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm
not sure about the former. - Albert Einstein
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| In fdisk, if you have multiple physical drives there will be a 5th entry in
the menu - to change drives. If there is only one physical drive, there will
only be 4 entries. Use number 4 to view the partitioning of the current
drive.
Jim.
"Ken Briscoe" <username@domainname.biz> wrote in message
news:AyTa9.101409$aA.21856@sccrnsc02...
> Hop on into DOS and type "fdisk"...there should be an option to view the
> drives, and it should tell you, with a little searching, if the drive is a
> primary partition or logical partition. if it's a primary partition,
> obviously it is the first partition on your drive (because you're using
> win95, no dynamic disks...), and if it's logical, then there's the answer
to
> your question....how to tell logical from physical...hope that helped...
>
> KB
>
>
> "smackedass" <nospamkema@capecod.net> wrote in message
> newsESa9.2929$N%4.290534@newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net...
> > Hello!
> >
> > If I can't get to see the BIOS on a 95 box (didn't convince the client
> that
> > a reboot was necessary), what's the easiest/best way to see, on a 95
box,
> if
> > its multiple drives (in this instance, C:, D:, E:, and F are logical
or
> > physical?
> >
> > Yes, I could've taken the case off, but is there a way to tell, from
> either
> > DOS or the OS itself, whether or not these drives are logical or
physical?
> >
> > Thanks, again! Love you guys (girls)!
> >
> > smackedass
> >
> >
>
>
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| In fdisk, if you have multiple physical drives there will be a 5th entry in
the menu - to change drives. If there is only one physical drive, there will
only be 4 entries. Use number 4 to view the partitioning of the current
drive.
Jim.
"Ken Briscoe" <username@domainname.biz> wrote in message
news:AyTa9.101409$aA.21856@sccrnsc02...
> Hop on into DOS and type "fdisk"...there should be an option to view the
> drives, and it should tell you, with a little searching, if the drive is a
> primary partition or logical partition. if it's a primary partition,
> obviously it is the first partition on your drive (because you're using
> win95, no dynamic disks...), and if it's logical, then there's the answer
to
> your question....how to tell logical from physical...hope that helped...
>
> KB
>
>
> "smackedass" <nospamkema@capecod.net> wrote in message
> newsESa9.2929$N%4.290534@newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net...
> > Hello!
> >
> > If I can't get to see the BIOS on a 95 box (didn't convince the client
> that
> > a reboot was necessary), what's the easiest/best way to see, on a 95
box,
> if
> > its multiple drives (in this instance, C:, D:, E:, and F are logical
or
> > physical?
> >
> > Yes, I could've taken the case off, but is there a way to tell, from
> either
> > DOS or the OS itself, whether or not these drives are logical or
physical?
> >
> > Thanks, again! Love you guys (girls)!
> >
> > smackedass
> >
> >
>
>
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