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new hard drive and partitions.
Hi all. I have installed another hard drive to my system; it is on the
secondary IDE as a slave- because of the ribbon cable positions. Anyway, both my main HD and this new hard drive have 3 partitions each; 1 primary partition and an extended with two logical devices on each - total of six. Problem is, windows now makes the primary partition of the second drive my D drive. In other words, before the new drive i had C:, D: and E:. I now have C D E F G H, BUT the D drive is from the secondary drive, while E and F are from my primary drive (what used to be labeled D and E). You can see that the problem is, anything I had installed on my original D and E partitions are now a different path. IS there a way to correct this without re-installing the programs or reassigning the paths? Ideally, I would like to keep C D E for my primary hard drive and the other letters for my secondary. Thanks a million in advance. |
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Welcome to ME/98/95. That's what they do, XP wouldn't.
"MajBach1" wrote in message ... Hi all. I have installed another hard drive to my system; it is on the secondary IDE as a slave- because of the ribbon cable positions. Anyway, both my main HD and this new hard drive have 3 partitions each; 1 primary partition and an extended with two logical devices on each - total of six. Problem is, windows now makes the primary partition of the second drive my D drive. In other words, before the new drive i had C:, D: and E:. I now have C D E F G H, BUT the D drive is from the secondary drive, while E and F are from my primary drive (what used to be labeled D and E). You can see that the problem is, anything I had installed on my original D and E partitions are now a different path. IS there a way to correct this without re-installing the programs or reassigning the paths? Ideally, I would like to keep C D E for my primary hard drive and the other letters for my secondary. Thanks a million in advance. |
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MajBach1 wrote:
Hi all. I have installed another hard drive to my system; it is on the secondary IDE as a slave- because of the ribbon cable positions. Anyway, both my main HD and this new hard drive have 3 partitions each; 1 primary partition and an extended with two logical devices on each - total of six. Problem is, windows now makes the primary partition of the second drive my D drive. In .... snip ... IS there a way to correct this without re-installing the programs or reassigning the paths? Ideally, I would like to keep C D E for my primary hard drive and the other letters for my secondary. Install the new drive with NO primary partition, only extended. -- fix (vb.): 1. to paper over, obscure, hide from public view; 2. to work around, in a way that produces unintended consequences that are worse than the original problem. Usage: "Windows ME fixes many of the shortcomings of Windows 98 SE". - Hutchison |
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MajBach1 wrote:
Hi all. I have installed another hard drive to my system; it is on the secondary IDE as a slave- because of the ribbon cable positions. Anyway, both my main HD and this new hard drive have 3 partitions each; 1 primary partition and an extended with two logical devices on each - total of six. Problem is, windows now makes the primary partition of the second drive my D drive. In other words, before the new drive i had C:, D: and E:. I now have C D E F G H, BUT the D drive is from the secondary drive, while E and F are from my primary drive (what used to be labeled D and E). You can see that the problem is, anything I had installed on my original D and E partitions are now a different path. IS there a way to correct this without re-installing the programs or reassigning the paths? Ideally, I would like to keep C D E for my primary hard drive and the other letters for my secondary. Thanks a million in advance. That's why I make all partitions primary, they always get the drive letters first. Why mess around with extended and logical???? You don't mention your operating system which is a pain. With XP you can change the drive letters for all but C:\ drive manually. However, I won't go into detail as I don't know if you're running XP. -- ~misfit~ --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.691 / Virus Database: 452 - Release Date: 26/05/2004 |
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Trent© wrote:
On Fri, 28 May 2004 10:45:08 -0400, "MajBach1" wrote: Hi all. I have installed another hard drive to my system; it is on the secondary IDE as a slave- because of the ribbon cable positions. Anyway, both my main HD and this new hard drive have 3 partitions each; 1 primary partition and an extended with two logical devices on each - total of six. Problem is, windows now makes the primary partition of the second drive my D drive. In other words, before the new drive i had C:, D: and E:. I now have C D E F G H, BUT the D drive is from the secondary drive, while E and F are from my primary drive (what used to be labeled D and E). You can see that the problem is, anything I had installed on my original D and E partitions are now a different path. IS there a way to correct this without re-installing the programs or reassigning the paths? Ideally, I would like to keep C D E for my primary hard drive and the other letters for my secondary. Thanks a million in advance. Do as Falconer said. Spot on! Its also a good idea to re-letter your optical drives. Make any reader R...any writer W. When you start in DOS, they'll become either R & S or W & X. Virg Wall -- A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,........ Ralph Waldo Emerson (Microsoft programmer's manual.) |
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the drive has to have a primary partition.
and as one said, you could relabel the drives to anything you want in XP. but there is nothing you can do in Win 98 other then manually editing your shortcuts and ini files. ============== Posted through www.HowToFixComputers.com/bb - free access to hardware troubleshooting newsgroups. |
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Trent© wrote:
Depends. Mine are usually down lower...depending on the other partitions...usually E, F, etc. Often times, they're not even recognized. If you don't load drivers for them, no they won't be recognized... LOL as you always say! -- Stacey |
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DaveinOlyWa wrote:
the drive has to have a primary partition. But that partition does not have to hold any file system recognizable to Windoze. -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? |
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On Sun, 30 May 2004 09:09:15 GMT, CBFalconer wrote:
DaveinOlyWa wrote: the drive has to have a primary partition. But that partition does not have to hold any file system recognizable to Windoze. The drive does not have to have a primary partition. If it did, not formatting it or using foreign format may not prevent windows from seeing the partition itself and still "bumping" drive letters. There are freeware utilities out there to create the extended-only partition, or for pay the most popular for a windows box might be Partitionmagic. |
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"DaveinOlyWa" wrote in message ... the drive has to have a primary partition. and as one said, you could relabel the drives to anything you want in XP. but there is nothing you can do in Win 98 other then manually editing your shortcuts and ini files. How about the old DOS SUB command in your autoexec.bat? TALON § |
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