Thanks Clint, I think I'll leave things alone.
I am a little surprised that the CMOS does drive letter
assigning the way it does. I'd have guessed that it would
first detect the master drive and all it's partitions then
detect the slave drive and all of it's partitions and
assign
letters accordingly. Can't ever second guess a computer or
the software.
Tom
** Original Message From: Support-OrpheusComputing.com **
>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
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