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HD drive letters in Win98
Name: Clead Date: August 6, 2000 at 16:08:36 Pacific
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I just added an old 3 gig to my system for extra storage, and windows inserted it between the partitions of my main 20 gig. b4: c:(20gig) d:(20) e:(20) f:(CDROM) now c:(20) d:(3gig) e:(20) f:(20) g:(cdrom) please help. non of my shortcuts work because my old d: drive moved up to e:. I wanted the 3 gig to be the new f: drive moving my cdrom back to g:. any help appreciated. Clead
Name: Ramanan.S.V Date: August 6, 2000 at 16:37:41 Pacific
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Hey all the problem should have been if you tried installing the second hard disk as a secondary master. So try using it as a primary slave and have the CDROM drive as the secondary master and voila you wont have problems and your usual installations on drive d would work very much well. http://computing.net/windows95/wwwboard/forum/10923.html
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Response Number 2
Name: Gio Date: August 6, 2000 at 16:37:57 Pacific
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I am not sure you can change the drive letters on hard disk other than by fically moving then to another position on your IDE cables. I know you can chage the drive letter on external hard drives ( i.e. usb drives, Zip drives) by going to the Start Menu/Settings/Control Panel/System click on the Device Manager Tab click on Disk Drives, select the drive you want to chage. Then click on Properties, select the Settings tab and under Reserve Drive Letters select F as your starting letter and your ending letter. As I said before you might have to just chage the location of you drive, but try this and see if is not greyed out. Hope I could be of service. Gio!
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Response Number 3
Name: Don Date: August 6, 2000 at 16:44:16 Pacific
The reason your 3gig drive became d: is that the 3 gig has a bootable partition. You have to remove the bootable partion in order for the original partitions to stay c: d: etc.
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Response Number 5
Name: Timmy Date: August 6, 2000 at 21:58:10 Pacific
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OK now for the correct answer. What you are seeing is normal. It has nothing to do with boot partitions or changing which plug on the IDE cable. This is the order of how it reads the drives. Drive c = First partition on Master drive Drive d = first partition on slave drive or secondary master Drive e = second partition on either master or slave etc...
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Response Number 6
Name: Timmy Date: August 7, 2000 at 10:45:25 Pacific
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Forgot to mention, you can fake out the order of the drives by doing the following: On your secondary drive, create a primary partition, then in that partition create a logical partition and format that one. This will give the sequence an extra partition but will skip the drive letter. Your drives will now have the lettering sequence you want. You might need a partitioning program such as Partition Magic.
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Response Number 7
Name: Joel Date: August 7, 2000 at 13:39:17 Pacific
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The correct answer is this:
The reason why your second drive it's being inserted between the partitions of your first is because it is a primary partition. If you delete the Primary partition and make the entire drive an Extended partition, any logical drives (letters) you create will be added on to the end of you first hard drive's partitions.
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