hi, i hope there are a lot of smart people out there, because i am stumped! currently have single 6.4G hard drive, partitioned into 4 logical drives[c:,d:,e:,f:].tried to install a second hard drive[2.1G]that was previously set up and fdisked into 3 partitions[c:,d:,e:] nothing active, non-bootable. however, with win98,i cannot change the drive designations of the 2nd hard drive the way i wanted to.. i wanted to make the 2nd drive my g:,h:, and i: drives. But win98 doesn't let me change them the way i can change the 2 cdroms i have [changed them to y:, and z:] does anyone know how i can do this [keep my original drive letter designations for my original 6.4G hard drive to c:,d:,e:, and f:, and change the 2nd hard drive designators to g:, h:, and i: i sure hope someone out there can help me!!! please! thanx much bruce

Don't know the answer, but hope it's here: http://www.cknow.com/ckinfo/driveletters.htm

Bruce, I presume your 6.4GB is set up as primary Master and 2.1 as primary slave and your problem is you can't change the drive letter, right. Backup all your data from secondary hard drive(2.1GB)to your Master drive(6.4GB). Go to fdisk and select y when it ask to support LBA. Select from the options hard drive 1(0 is your primary master)and make partitions as g, h, & i. Boot and see if you have got the desired result. if yes restore data from whereever you copied it, on to your new partitions This should do it!

Drive letters are assigned in the following fashion: Primary partitions, logical partitions in extended partitions, other IDE devices depending on first or second IDE controller and master/slave on the controller. As long as the second drive is all extended partitions containing the logical drive partitions G: H: I: then your system will recognize them like you want. But if the first partition on the second drive is a Primary then the system will label the Primary partition of the first drive C: then jump to the next Primary partition and letter it D: then go back and letter the remaining logical partitions depending on their master/slave designation and which IDE they are on. Clear as mud?