Assigning drive letters to hard drives?

[edmicman]

I have two drives, C, and D. Recently I repartitioned the C drive into two parts, one for the OS and one for programs. However, it made the OS partition C, but the programs the E drive, keeping the current D drive as D. This didn't really matter to me at the moment, but I got a new hard drive, and used the included progam to copy my C drive (which was actually C and E) over to the new drive. Again, I can work with this since my programs are set up to be on the E drive anyhow. My question is, sometime here I'm going to be wiping things clean and installing win2k. Ideally, I'd like C to be OS, D to be my programs drive, and my current data drive D to be the E drive. I'm afraid though that no matter how I do things the D drive is going to always stay D. What can I do to fix this? Anything? Thanks!

 

[Pariah]

If you partition your drives properly, you can choose your order. W/out going into detail there, you can assign drive letters in win2k (not the boot drive or partition containing the OS, usually the same) using disk manager which would probably be easier.

 

[lowtech1]

You could use a drive image program to image a partition or use backup to restore a partition after chaging drive letter. (caution! normal copy & backup may cost you to lose security/rights & file/directory artributes)