How can I partition a drive so it is C and D not C and E?

[MWink]

I'm in a really strange situation where I have 2 hard drives and need the primary one to have partitions C: and D: on it. The second drive will have 3 more partitons on it and will be removed from time to time. I need to have the letters stay the same for the first drive, all the time. Is there any way I can do this? These will be FAT32 partitions.

 

[Rob G.]

You need to make the whole second HD as Extended DOS, then create your logical drives within that.

Windows always looks for Primary DOS partitions first, so if you have one on the second HD it will take priority over any extended dos drives on the first disk.

 

[MWink]

Thanks. I was wondering about that.

 

[sad]

Looks like you dual boot, hmm..not sure about that but with win2K/XP, it's easy. Just go into disk management and you can assign drive letters. With WinMe, you may be out of luck. You may have to use Partition Magic.

 

[MWink]

sad: Yes, I am trying to dual boot Win2K Pro and Win ME. I also have partition magic. How do I use it to assign drive letters? Thanks.

 

[sad]

I haven't used PMagic in years, but I rememberthere was a utility called Boot Magic or Drive mapper. Maybe there's a built-in tutorial?

 

[CZroe]

I think that PM utility was for fixing programs pointing to the wrong drive by fixing shortcuts & registry entries...

 

[JohnnyPC]

Skip the PM and just use the disk management applet in your Win2K...just re-arrange the letters as you want them...

 

[CZroe]

If he's dual booting like he said, that'll only work for 2K right?

 

[MWink]

I got it set up. I did what Rob G. said and made the second disk one big extended partition. Thanks.

 

[robg1701]

Glad to be of assistance....oh wait, i never replied to this thread, oops 😛



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