Partitions Not Detecting Correctly

[DasFox]

I have two drives, and on the 1st drive I have two partitions, C and D.

The second drive is just storage and has been left as one partition.

In the Windows setup if I reinstall Windows XP the D partition on the 1st drive gets detected as E and the second drive's partition gets detected as D.

I don't get why it's doing this, any tool anyone can recommend to see if there are any partition errors it can automatically fix

THANKS

 

[Nothinman]

IIRC what you're seeing in setup is the default order that Windows uses. First primary partition then the second primary partition followed by the first secondaries and secondary secondaries. There's nothing wrong with the disks, it's a Windows thing.

 

[mwalt2]

You can change drive letters under Administrative Tools->Computer Management->Disk Management. Right click on the partition and select change drive letter. You'll have to first change D to something not used (like Z), then switch E to D and Z to E 🙂.