Second Drive Not Recognized With Win7 RC
I have an AMD 64 (single core) processor based machine. Â It recently became my 'second' PC for testing. Â Previously Windows XP Pro was installed an used for a few years. Â This PC has two IDE hard drives. Â THe system in on the first drive, the second is for data only. Â With XP this was, of course, no problem.
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