PCWorks: Drive Partition Order

It (the BIOS and/or Windows) also assigns drive letters with

regards to master and slave configurations.  I've simply 
changed that, and got a whole new group of letters!
-Clint

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Eichenlaub"

Tom, I believe the answer to your implied question about why

"CMOS does
drive letter
assigning the way it does" is as follows:

CMOS assigns letters for hardware first, then logical.  It 
assigns the
primary partition on the first drive as "C",
then the primary 
partition on
the second drive as "D".

Then it goes back and assigns letters to the
"created" 
(logical) partitions.
  You may in fact have a second primary on one drive, but
(for 
assignment
purposes at least) CMOS sees it as a logical partition.

At least that's the way I remember it......     8^)

HTH, John.
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Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2006 12:39:37 -0400
From: Tom Subject: Re: PCWorks: Drive Partition Order

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
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