Hi all. I have installed another hard drive to my system; it is on the
secondary IDE as a slave- because of the ribbon cable positions. Anyway,
both my main HD and this new hard drive have 3 partitions each; 1 primary
partition and an extended with two logical devices on each - total of six.
Problem is, windows now makes the primary partition of the second drive my D
drive. In other words, before the new drive i had C:, D: and E:.
I now have C D E F G H, BUT the D drive is from the secondary drive, while E
and F are from my primary drive (what used to be labeled D and E). You can
see that the problem is, anything I had installed on my original D and E
partitions are now a different path. IS there a way to correct this without
re-installing the programs or reassigning the paths? Ideally, I would like
to keep C D E for my primary hard drive and the other letters for my
secondary.
Thanks a million in advance.

Welcome to ME/98/95. That's what they do, XP wouldn't.

"MajBach1" <removeallbut_majbach@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
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MajBach1 wrote:
Install the new drive with NO primary partition, only extended.

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MajBach1 wrote:
That's why I make all partitions primary, they always get the drive letters
first. Why mess around with extended and logical????

You don't mention your operating system which is a pain. With XP you can
change the drive letters for all but C:\ drive manually. However, I won't go
into detail as I don't know if you're running XP.
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Trent© wrote:
When you start in DOS, they'll become either R & S or W & X.

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the drive has to have a primary partition.

and as one said, you could relabel the drives to anything you want in
XP. but there is nothing you can do in Win 98 other then manually
editing your shortcuts and ini files.

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Trent© wrote:

If you don't load drivers for them, no they won't be recognized...

LOL as you always say!

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

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On Sun, 30 May 2004 09:09:15 GMT, CBFalconer <cbfalconer@yahoo.com> wrote:

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.

"DaveinOlyWa" <laclau6609@hotmail-dot-com.no-spam.invalid> wrote in message
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How about the old DOS SUB command in your autoexec.bat?

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