Why is my drive partitioning like this?

[Pretender]

Alright, here's the story:
I have 2 IDE HDs, my main drive 20 GB which I split into 4 partitions (primary, primary, logical, logical), and my backup drive 8 GB which is one single partition.

My first primary partition on the 20 GB is C: (fine), the 8 GB drive is D: (also fine), but for some reason, the 2 logicals get the next 2 letters (E: and F:} and my other 20 GB primary partition is getting stuck with G:


Shouldn't all the primary partitions come first, and become C:/D:/E:, not C:/D:/G:? Could I have done something wrong, or is this normal? And if it's normal, should I turn the second primary into a logical (I'm planning on putting win2k on this one, and on the first primary I have win98se on it)?

 

[NelsonMuntz]

I don't have multiple drives (partitions) in my machine right now, but doesn't device manager allow oyu to change drive letters on the non-booting drive or am I just nuts?

 

[Pretender]

nope, only on physical fixed drives, and I don't think it even lets you change HD letters (only CD/DVD).

 

[Azeroth]

look up for letter assigner here

 

[bacillus]

what OS are you using?

 

[Pederv]

How did you get 2 primary's on one drive? How are your drives configured, as far as master/slave relationship? Is the 20GB, primary, a slave to one of the other drives? Have you tried swapping it in your master/slave relationship and seeing how the drives were arranged by the OS?


EDIT: My bad, maybe I should read more carefully. I thought you had 2-20GB and an 8GB. If you run fdisk, does it see your second primary partition on the 20GB as a non-dos partition?

 

[Jiggz]

Actually, your drive designations are all normal. The drive naming convention starts first with the letter "C" on the first HD, "D" on the second HD, and so forth for the following HDD's. Then the next designation goes to logical drives starting from the first HD, then logical drives from the second HD and so forth with the logical drives of the following HDD's. Then the next designation goes to software loaded drives, like CD-Roms, Zip, DVD's, etc.

 

[julianf]

<< How did you get 2 primary's on one drive? >>



i was about to ask that, get PQmagic...