How does HDD assign the drive letter?

[9lives]

I have 3 HDD and one cd-rom.

My mainboard got primary(master,slave)secondary(master,slave). It also have raid controller(primary and scondary).

I have plug in HDD 1 to primary master.
I have plug in HDD 2 to primary salve.
I have plug in CD-ROM to secondary master.
I have plug in HDD 3 to Raid-conrtoller(primary master.)


How will be HDD assign the drive number?


Thanks in advance.

ps: I am not running mirror.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

the hdd is a storage device and does not make any decisions. windows decides what drive letter to assign, by a process that is kept secret 😉

who knows what drive letters they will be assigned. primary master will be C: but theres no telling how it will name the other drives.

in any case, you can change the drive letters later on.

 

[AndyHui]

Explanation here in this FAQ.

 

[9lives]

if you read my signature, you know that I am using Win98............................................................

 

[AndyHui]

Yes, but how Win9x assigns its drives are still explained in the FAQ.