re: 'Designate Your Own Drive Letters'
Monday, May 26, 2003 at 3:06 am
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Posted by Nell
(1 messages posted)
We solved this problem on several computers, with the large disk partitioned into
anything from 2 to 4 drives, and keeping a smaller disk with one partition only as
a single drive (always a slave, usually primary slave). We wanted the small disk
to have the last letter of the hard drives, and my current drive designations are
C, D, and E on the 30, and F on the 4gb drive, with G for CD Burner, H for CD (yes,
I like having both) and I for the camera memory card reader. My bios think I have
only three hard drives (C, D and E) and the secondary slave is set to "none". Drives
G, H and I have their letters set manually in Windows (ME), using "reserve drive
letters". When Windows starts, it finds another drive - 4gb - and gives it the missing
number. So, my 4gb drive is right where I want it to be, at "F". My DOS database
programme, running under windows, also finds my "F" drive without problems. This
also worked with Windows 98 and Windors 98SE - haven't tried it with XP.
Nell
On Sunday, March 9, 2003 at 12:19 pm, Julie wrote:
>We agree - have spent all day struggling after installing a second hard drive. All
>the letters shifted along one, and we couldn't use any software requiring a CD (big
>headache on a Sunday - most of the four boys' games!)
>Tried registry change but it just changed back on restarting (we're using Windows
>ME on a Dell Dimension). Downloaded Letter Assigner on JohnK's advice and it solved
>the problem in 5 mins. Like John, we suggest that Annoyances should test their solution.
>Thanks, John!
>
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