Help with new hard drive...

[thefantom1]

I just installed a second hard drive in my computer...... (win98 second edition) I had my first hard drive partitioned into the C drive and the D drive...... when I installed the second hard drive.. my C drive is the same....however....... my D drive is now E. And the new D drive is the first part of the second drive (I made 4 partitions out of the second drive) How can I go and switch my D and E drive lettering??? It is screwing up some of the programs that I have installed on my "E" drive now (the old D drive) Thanks for any help...

 

[Lao Tzu]

go to www.google.com
go to groups
go to alt.computer


i'm sure you'll get a valid answer here, but that board is devoted solely to computers. computers & computer info make up a small part of this board.

 

[thefantom1]

True... but I trust these guys here............

 

[Superbabe]

Try this: (this is for windows 2000, I don't know off hand how other windows editions will take it....so it may not work....)

Go to Disk Management

(To open Disk Management, click Start, point to Settings, click Control Panel, double-click Administrative Tools, and then double-click Computer Management. In the console tree under Storage, click Disk Management.)


Click on Action, then from the menu select "all tasks", from the next menu "changing drive letters and paths".

In the little box that comes up you should see your drives. Highlight the one you want to change and then click on "edit" or "add" (I think it's add). This should allow you to change the drive letter.

I don't think Windows will allow to drives named the same thing so you may have to change drive e: to F: before you can change d: to e:, if you see what I mean.....

Hope it works. If not let me know and I'll dig out a solution for your system. What's your OS anyway?

 

[thefantom1]

Win 98 second edition... I don't have the administrative tools...

 

[Superbabe]

ah...ok...I'll get back to you shortlee.....

 

[Superbabe]

Ok tf1, try this......

You can change the drive letter of a CD-ROM drive by performing the following steps:


Click Start, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel.

Double-click the System icon, and then click the Device Manager tab.

Click the CD-ROM drive you want to change, and then click the Properties button.

Click the Settings tab.

In the Reserved Drive Letters section, set Start Drive Letter and End Drive Letter to the drive letter you want the CD-ROM drive to use. Click OK until you return to Control Panel.

Restart the computer.

I don't know how this will make your partition react tho...let me know and I'll keep thinking.........

******oh yes and your new drive MUST be formatted as extended partitions - no primary partitions.....this may be the problem.......******

 

[thefantom1]

the CD rom settings are fine.. my hard drives are c d e f g h with my cd roms going as I and J I don't recall if I formatted the the new drive as extended or not... let me run the setup software again...

 

[Superbabe]

you'll need to look at the partition in DOS....reboot to MS-DOS and do fdisk and have a look .......... but you knew that !!!!! You see, Windows, lovely as it is will give the primary partitions drive names first, and then go back and do the others, regardless of the actual physical install of the drives.

 

[thefantom1]

Thanks for your help superbabe....... I think I will just leave well enough alone.... everything is working ok..just have to point some shortcuts to the e drive now...thanks again....... and a big birthday spanking to you from me!!!

 

[Superbabe]

Thank tf1 !!!!