re: Question about harddisk driveletters
Monday, October 8, 2001 at 6:44 pm
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Posted by Maxim_dx
(1 messages posted)
Yeah you have a problem there. Unfortunately there is noway around this while using
MS-Windows or MS-DOS.
The first partition of every physical hard drive is loaded first in sucessive drive
letters starting at drive C: then all other partitions are loaded starting with the
partions on the first hard drive continuing onto the last.
The way I have used for years to handle this "problem" (since I am constantly changing
my drives) is this:
1) I leave drives C-F for physical drives
2) I use an old DOS utility {subst} to make directories look like drives which I
have the AUTOEXEC.BAT file load on boot.
subst G: c:\zgames (for games)
subst H: c:\zdata (for data)
subst I: c:\zinstall (for Installs and utilities)
3)I always set my CDROM drives to K-M
4)I always set my Network drives to N-R
5)I always set my VirtualCD drives to S-Z
Keep in mind that this allows all hard drives to be one large partition only and
makes it easy to move things around alot assuming you adjust your subst commands
in your autoexec.bat file to specify the accual place of your "special" directories.
This has always worked for me, but up until now the subst command has worked, this
may change in the future and if it does I will be forced into looking to something
like "PartitionMagic" or some other third party software to help me out.
Hope this is of some use to you. Good Luck
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