drive letter assignment

[xospec1alk]

alrite this problem is pretty much moot but still....

i had 3 drives C(8GB), D(40GB), E(40GB) i took out the 8, and put in an 80, and it gave it the letter E...why would that happen? my old D was now my new C....and so on and so forth...i had set the jumpers on the HD to master, and it was on the, i assume, right channel on my primary ide cable...so y did this happen? i ended up using partition magic to change it around, but i had to reinstall my OS....any ideas? cuz that suqed, and just in case, i dont want that ever to happen again.

 

[Hessakia]

you didnt partition it properly when you installed it into your system--you should have used FDISK and made a primary partition on the new 80GB drive

 

[TheCorm]

Yeah it's a pain when that happens. What OS are you running, Windows 2000 always remembers the drive letters even when you take one out, Windows 98 will drop the letters down when you remove one of the drives.

If you had unplugged the Hard drive with the original "D" and "E" partitions on it, then installed onto the "C" on the 80gb drive with only that drive in, when you plugged the other one back in they should have then naturally re-assumed their original letters.

Not the most ellegant way, but simple I think!

Corm

 

[xospec1alk]

what i did was, i removed the C drive, and kept the D and the E in...i booted from my win2k install cd and just let it work its magic, by the time i noticed it was actually installing into my E (the new drive, hence the new E) it was too late, as the install was done...i shoulda just unplugged all the drives, and just put in the new drive....stupid stupid me....oh well...such is life...

i think i shoulda fdisked it, but i was spoiled by the whole bootable cd thing...but i was running 2k on my old hard drive, and of course, no boot disk maker... shoulda grabbed one off the net, well live and learn...i