Assigning Drive Letters
B Martin
My desktop has a hard drive set up as C: and D:. My CD is set up as E:. I
have a 1 GB hard drive I want to add as a back up device. I know if I add
the second hard drive, it will be assigned the drive letter D. However, if
I restrict my CD to use only E: via Control Panel in Win98, will it force
the second partition on the original hard drive to F:????
Thanks
Eric B. Smith
"B Martin" <bmar...@prodigy.net> wrote in message
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No. No matter what you do your CD WILL get bumped to F:. Removable drives
like the CD Drive are always assigned the last letters. Depending on how
you fdisk the harddrive you're going to install it will either bump your D:
drive to E: or it will leave D: as is and become E: itself. I forget how
to fdisk it so it doesn't bump the current harddrive letters. I *think* if
you fdisk it as an Extended Partition instead of Primary Partition it'll
leave your current C&D drives alone.
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"B Martin" <bmar...@prodigy.net> wrote:
>
> My desktop has a hard drive set up as C: and D:. My CD is set up as
E:. I
> have a 1 GB hard drive I want to add as a back up device. I know if
I add
> the second hard drive, it will be assigned the drive letter D.
However, if
> I restrict my CD to use only E: via Control Panel in Win98, will it
force
> the second partition on the original hard drive to F:????
>
>
>
No it will not, but you can use Letter Assigner to keep your CD
whatever drive letter you want. Get it at http://www.v72735.f2s.com
or http://www.bigfoot.com/~vadbrtn
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