On Sun, 30 May 2004 09:09:15 GMT, CBFalconer wrote:

DaveinOlyWa wrote:

the drive has to have a primary partition.

But that partition does not have to hold any file system
recognizable to Windoze.

The drive does not have to have a primary partition.
If it did, not formatting it or using foreign format may not prevent
windows from seeing the partition itself and still "bumping" drive
letters.

There are freeware utilities out there to create the extended-only
partition, or for pay the most popular for a windows box might be
Partitionmagic.