Drives alphabet

[WannabeNT]

I have two hard drives on my computer, 10gig (primary) with 4 partitions and 6gig (primary slave) with 3 partitions. Before I add in the second drive, the alphabet drives used to be C, D, E & F. I realized that the alphabet drives changed when I first add in the second drive. Now, the first drive has the alphabet C, E, F, G and the second drive has D, H, I. Can anyone tell me how to partition the second drive or configure it so that it will not take the D alphabet but will follow the alphabet from G onward. I have tried to partition the second drive with the extended partition only but to no avail. It requires a primary partition before allowing an extended partition. Someone has suggested doing that will allow the second drive to take whatever alphabets after the first drive. I'll be appreciate if anyone has a clue to solve this problem.

 

[MasterRacker]

Don't worry about what they get initially. Use the Disk Administrator to change the letters to whatever ou want them to be.
Jeff
masterracker@hotmail.com

If everything seems to be going well: you don't have enough information.......

 

[dxd]

Using NT, Jeff's suggestion should work fine. NT provides you with the ability to alter the drive letters regardless of the partition scheme.

However, for clarity Primary partitions are counted first beginning with the first physical drive and logical drives next beginning with the first physical drive. I do not know where you had a problem creating just an Extended partition without a primary...you do not need a primary partition to create an extended....outside of NT, i.e. Dos/Windows, this is how we used to workaround the issue on portables where you could add drives almost dynamically and we needed to prevent the drive letter scheme from changing.

Doug
dxd_2000@yahoo.com