How to fix drive letters in Windows

[Zorba]

I just installed a new hard drive and now all of my drive are screwed up in windows. I've done this many times before, but for some reason I have forgotten how to fix the problem. So does anyone know how to change drive letters in Win98?

 

[bacillus]

have a look in device manager!

 

[AndyHui]

Windows 98 does not support reassignment of hard drive letters.

Windows 95, 98 and ME (along with DOS), assign letters to Primary Partitions first, and then logical partitions inside extended partitions, and networked or CD drives last.

 

[Zorba]

Originally posted by: AndyHui
Windows 98 does not support reassignment of hard drive letters.

Windows 95, 98 and ME (along with DOS), assign letters to Primary Partitions first, and then logical partitions inside extended partitions, and networked or CD drives last.

There is a way to force it to take the letters you want it to take, I've done 4 or 5 times before, because this happens everytime I install new drive and I always get the letters figured. I just forgot how to do it because it has been a while.

 

[lowtech1]

How to Prevent Drive Letters from Changing After You Add a Hard Disk or a CD-ROM

MS DOS/Win9.x/ME scheme:

HDD1:
C: primary
E: extended/logical drive 1
F: extended/logical drive 2
G: extended/logical drive 3

HDD2:
D: MB primary
H: MB extended/logical drive 1
I: MB extended/logical drive 2
J: MB extended/logical drive 3

 

[Zorba]

Well, in class I remembered how to do it . You just don't make a primary partition, just make a extended partition.

 

[lowtech1]

Originally posted by: Zorba
Well, in class I remembered how to do it . You just don't make a primary partition, just make a extended partition.

uh!?
how do you boot dos/windows?

 

[Zorba]

One the #1 Master I have primary, on my other 3 drives there is no primary partition. So the order of letter is:
C:\ #1 Master Primary
D:\ #1 Master Logical 1
E:\ #1 Slave Logical 1
F:\ #1 Slave Logical 2
G:\ #2 Master Logical 1

etc