How do I change drive letters?

[GremlinHater]

Windows 98SE

I can't change it by going through the Control Panel > System > Device Manager > Disk Drive > Properties

How would I do it otherwise?

 

[sohcrates]

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I can't change it by going through the Control Panel > System > Device Manager > Disk Drive > Properties
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well, that's the way you're SUPPOSED to do it in win98. why can't you do it? is it grayed out? does it give you an error?

 

[GremlinHater]

Yes, it's grayed out.

 

[sohcrates]

not sure of any other ways to do it in win98, other than re-arranging your hard drive

what's your situation? what exactly are you looking to change?

 

[GremlinHater]

I have one harddrive that has dual boot of win98 and winxp. I have a second storage harddrive. In XP the drives are in alright order. In 98SE the OS drives C: (win98) and e: (winxp) are made after i hooked up my second hd because it had d: associated with it, before I added it, it had winxp as d:.

 

[sohcrates]

so let me see if i got this straight:

in win98, after you added your second drive, winxp became "e" (it USED to be "d")

but in win2k, nothing has changed since you added that second drive?

how are the drives arranged? master / slave and primary / master basically determine drive letters

 

[jfunk]

I don't believe you can change the assigned letters in 98 for HDs can you?? I think you can only change CDs and Zips, etc...

HD are determined by their cabling. I think it goes something like this:

master primary, slave primary, master extended(s), slave extended(s)...





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[GremlinHater]

I have the dual boot harddrive as the master, and the storage as the slave. So you could say it looks like this...

Master: C:,E: (Win98,WinXP)
Slave: D: Storage

And yes, I think you got the general idea of what happened.

 

[jfunk]

That looks correct. I don't think you can do anything about it. Primary partitions are all going to get assigned before extended partitions.

 

[BigNeko]

Partition?@Commander