Hard Drive lettering

[rugrat]

I am adding a new hard drive to my 98SE system. The current drive is partioned C, D, & E.
When I add the new drive on a different IDE channel it comes up as drive D.
Is there any way to make this new drive F ?
TIA

 

[bjc112]

i don't think ... i think windows labels the drives as they appear.. found on mobo..

 

[bozo1]

Don't partition it as primary. Partition it as extended and create a logical drive in the extended partition.

 

[Narse]

<< Don't partition it as primary. Partition it as extended and create a logical drive in the extended partition. >>



I don't think so, this is a seperate drive it must be partitioned as Primary, Windows will assign a drive letter to it for one after the ones currently in use, So if you have a c,d,e one on HDD and say a cd-rom that is F, your new drive should be g

 

[bjc112]

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<< Don't partition it as primary. Partition it as extended and create a logical drive in the extended partition. >>



I don't think so, this is a seperate drive it must be partitioned as Primary, Windows will assign a drive letter to it for one after the ones currently in use, So if you have a c,d,e one on HDD and say a cd-rom that is F, your new drive should be g >>



that's what i thought...

 

[bozo1]

Not true. A 2nd drive does NOT need to be partitioned as primary. Windows will show all primary partitions first in order of the drive number, then logical partitions in order of drive number - drive 0, drive 1, etc.

I have 4 drives. The 1st has 2 partitions, one primary, one logical. The rest all are extended partitions with one logical drive defined in each. My drive letters line up perfectly.

 

[medic]

Try this:

Letter Assigner

 

[Kanly]

That's a neat looking program CRV.

I was going to suggest Partition Magic, but that costs $.