changing letter assignment for slave drive

[blackhawk]

I put a slave drive in along with my main drive, partitioned into c and d. The new drive has taken over d and forced my old d partition to e.
How can I simply change the letter designators?
I know its simple for my cdrw and cdr but how for the hd?

 

[inetd;]

What OS are you using ?
I used to change the drive assignment from Win2000

 

[blackhawk]

sorry, I keep forgetting, I've got win98se

 

[bubba]

Primary partitions by default take lower letter assignments than extended partitions.

 

[Edski]

The problem is that when you partitioned that drive, you created a primary and an extended partition. What happens is that when your system is booting up, it looks through the IDE channels for primary dos partitions. It finds the one on your primary IDE, assigns it drive letter C, then goes through the rest of the channels and assigns your slave drive primary dos partition drive letter D. It repeats the process with logical drives on the hard drives.

To resolve this, you need to delete all partitions off of the second drive that you just set up. Then you need to create only an extended dos partition on that drive, then create your logical partitions on that extended partition

 

[inetd;]

Edski is right, I have my 3 hd 1st master, 2ndslave on first IDE and 3rd on 2nd ide channel. I set up my drive assignment using win2000 drive management and the program set up the first drive C: and d: and the second drive e:...
the 2nd and third drive doesn't have any primary partition only extended.

seems you need to fdisk again.

 

[blackhawk]

I understand part of what you said Edski, but do I have to fdisk both drives or just the new slave? It has no partitions, only one pri dos partition.

 

[blackhawk]

Thanks edski, I started to do it and it all worked out just fine. I couldn't even spell fdisk two months ago!

 

[Basse]

Bare in mind, you cannot change the driveletter of the partition that contains the system (OS).
Re-install should do the trick though! 🙂

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