Two hard drives, one with two partitions. Drives letters are right.

[jsbush]

Edit: Here's what I want to do. I want to partion one of my hard drives (Quantum 20.5gig LM 7200rpm) into two partions, one to instal win2k and the other one to install win98se. Now I want those partions to have drive letter C: and the other partion to have drive letter D:. Everything works ok until I add my 8.4gig hard drive, the 8.4gig goes to drive letter D:, but I want it drive letter E:.

I have tried connecting the drive to IDE 2 on the FastTrak 66 controller and I have also tried to connect it to the KT7's onboard IDE controller. Still does the same thing.

Can anyone help?

 

[AdamK47]

Silly question time:
Why are you running a RAID card with non RAIDed drives?

 

[jsbush]

I needed the extra IDE devices so I got a modded raid card.

 

[jsbush]

Update! Made it easier for all to understand.

 

[JoeBleed]

Under Win2k you can manualy asign drive letears through the disk administrator. Which is under administrative tools and computer managment then the storage section under disk managment. under win98 i am not too sure how to do it with out playing with the regestry.

 

[Mday]

there is something you need to know about partitioning.

first is the actual type of partitions you can have. primary and extended and within the extended partition, you can have various logical partitions.

the primary partition is ONE drive letter and any physical hard drive can only have ONE primary partition. the extended partition has as many letters as there are logical partitions in that extended partition.

ALL primary partitions are counted first, and allocated letters. then the extended\logical partitions.

so, what does this mean...

your second hard drive has a primary partition, so that primary partition is given a letter before the second partition of your first drive.

there is nothing you can really do about this, except fdisk (or use partition magic) the second drive. remember to back up all data no matter what.

what i do is install the OSes on different drives, that's what i do really. win98se in the primary channel set to master. w2k in the primary channel set to slave. i like having primary partitions in my HDDs ;-)

the raid controller does not do anything here btw.

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there is no real second thing ;-)

 

[jsbush]

You have to have a primary partion on a hard drive right? I can't just add an extended partion on my second hard drive?


I don't want to use my second hard drive for win98 cus it's only a 5400rpm.

 

[dcdomain]

JoeBleed: I'd like to change my Win2K partition from E: to D:... what happens to all the program that point to drive E:? Will Win2K reroute them to point to drive D:?

Thanks...

 

[Ornery]

FDISK the second drive as an extended partition and all will be well.

I am just not too keen on those software partitioning programs like PM. Well, look at it this way. FDISK has never screwed anybody's HDD up like some of the software partitioning horror stories I've heard!

 

[jsbush]

FDISK will not let me creat an extended partion when there is no primary partion there! Please help!

 

[CQuinn]

I've never had any problems with disk partitioning programs that weren't due
to user error or a previous misconfiguration of the hardware. You're just
as likely to screw up with FDISK, and it doesn't offer you any type of
recovery (as PM 6.0 does).

The only thing you garuantee with FDISK is that you've already made a backup,
or just don't care about the data you're about to blow away. Even PM tells
you to make a backup, but they can't protect people from their own decisions.

 

[CQuinn]

If FDISK is your only option right now, try this:

1. Create a small primary partition (as small as possible)

2. Create the extended partition.

3. Delete the primary partition.

I don't know if DOS FDISK will let that work, but it should only take a few
minutes to try.

 

[jsbush]

Thanks for your help guys, I don't know why but all of a sudden fdisk let me creat an extended partition without a primary one being there.