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://support.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 ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
