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re: Question about harddisk driveletters
Thursday, January 17, 2002 at 8:34 pm
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Posted by Bruce Parsons (5 messages posted)

On Friday January 18, 2002 I have found a soultion to the problem. I had installed a 40g hd partitioned in 5 parts and moved the original 6.8 partitioned in 4 parts to the slave position. I wanted my new faster drive to be assigned the first 5 letters and you know what happened. PC Magazine has a great article complete with an illustrative chart at http://www.pcworld.com/resource/article/0%2Caid%2C14872%2Cpg%2C2%2C00.asp Simply put, the second hd has to have all partitions as logical drives. No primary partition. This will accomplish what you are looking for. The only downfall with this is that the information on the original drive will be lost in the fdisk process. In my case that is not a problem because I have so much room on my new 40g. Easily enough to contain anything I want to save from my original 6.8g.

Written in response to:: Question about harddisk driveletters (Bram Luyckx: Monday, October 8, 2001 at 5:57 pm)

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subst drives (Sage Tyrtle: Saturday, February 23, 2002 at 5:23 am)

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Question about harddisk driveletters (Bram Luyckx: Mon, Oct 8, 2001, 5:57 pm)

re: Question about harddisk driveletters (Maxim_dx: Mon, Oct 8, 2001, 6:44 pm)

re: Question about harddisk driveletters (Bram Luyckx: Mon, Oct 8, 2001, 11:36 pm)

re: Question about harddisk driveletters (Jan Ryba: Wed, Dec 26, 2001, 6:11 am)

re: Question about harddisk driveletters (Bruce Parsons: Thu, Jan 17, 2002, 8:34 pm)

subst drives (Sage Tyrtle: Sat, Feb 23, 2002, 5:23 am)

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