Tom, I can't remember with win98, but on XP you can change
drive letters under "Administrative tools",
"Computer
management" then "Disk management". You
can right click the
list of drives/partitions" at the top area, or at the
bottom
and "Change drive letter and paths", but A
WARNING HERE!!! DO
NOT DO THIS without FIRST BEING SURE you have BACKUPS of the
partitions! I did this once and it caused a disaster! It
was
a long time ago and I can't remember exactly what happened,
but my PC wouldn't boot and after I repaired that, I lost
data
on one or more of the partitions! So BEWARE of that. You
should also change a drive letter to something else NOT IN
USE
FIRST, then change the OTHER drive letter, then change the
1st
one back to what you want it to be. In other words, you
can't
change what is "D" to what is "E",
because "E" is being used.
So you'd have to change it to something like
"M" (or "N",
etc.), then change "E" drive to something not
being used, then
you can change what WAS "D" (now
"M") to E for example.
Read here for more details.
http://suppor
t.microsoft.com/kb/307844/
Now this page says it CANNOT be done!
http:
//www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000038.htm
Here's a quote from the page:
"Changing the drive letter of a hard disk drive.
Unlike CD drives and other removable drives, hard disk
drives
cannot change drive letters. If you wish to create multiple
drive letters for a single hard disk drive you can partition
the hard disk drive into multiple segments. However, this
will
only create multiple drives in alphabetical order, such as
C:
D: and E:. You cannot take a hard drive that has been
assigned
as D: and assign it to an alternate letter such as
K:."
Proceed with caution!
-Clint
God Bless
Clint Hamilton, Owner
http://OrpheusComputing.c
om
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom"
I took a hard drive out of computer one and put it in
computer two as a slave. The computer one drive has three
partitions on it with the first being a primary partition
with Windows 98 SE on it. The drive in computer two has
five
partitions, two primary partitions with Windows 98 SE on one
and Windows XP Pro on the other. I use Partition Magic to
hide the primary partition I don't want to use.
Is there a way I can get the partitions to appear in a given
order?
The way they keep coming up is:
"C" Primary partition from drive two.
"D" Primary partition from drive one.
"E" Partition "D" from drive two.
"F" Primary "E" from drive two.
"G" Partition "F" from drive two.
"H" Partition "D" from drive one.
"I" partition "E" from drive one.
I'd like to have all the partitions from drive two (master)
show as drives "C" "D"
"E" "F" and the partitions from
drive
one show as "G" "H" "I"
if possible.
Does anyone understand what I am asking?
Thanks,
Tom
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