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Losing my drive letters assigned with Disk Admin
Name: Kevin Nelson Date: September 11, 2000 at 05:22:30 Pacific
Comment:
I'm assigning a drive letter (E:) through Disk Administrator, if I have to reboot the server that I lose the drive assignment to the array. The drive letter is assigned an external SCSI tower. This is connected to the server with a DPT card, setup with RAID 5 and a hotspare. NT Disk Admin sees this unit as one disk with 34GB of storage. I then assign the disk a letter of E: and close Disk Admin. As long as the server is running I have the drive E:, but if I shut the server down and reboot the drive letter is then lost. Disk Admin still sees the disk as 34GB and the label still exists but there is no drive letter E:, I have to reassign the drive letter. I don't want to have to reassign the letter every time.
Summary: Hi Nitish, Somthing that may have happened is that you have created two primary partitions. If this is the case drive letter assignment priority goes to the primary partitions then to the extended. ...
Summary: An extended partition does not have a drive letter assigned to it. Only logical drives in the extended partition are given drive letters. I suspect E: is really a primary partition. In which case the...
