A Working Solution For This Problem
Tuesday, March 19, 2002 at 8:14 pm
Posted by Morgan Galpin
(1 messages posted)
Originally I had a 9gig hd with two partitions, one for windows (C:) and one for
everything else (D:). Then one day I decided to add another hd. It was an older hd,
but more is better right? When I added it, it took over as D: and shifted all the
other drives by one letter. This of course meant that most of my installed programs
stopped working.
I tried the above solutions and they did not work for me. I came across the following
links which I found useful:
How
Microsoft drive letters are designated
and
How
to help preserve drive letters
Essentially the Primary partition on each drive gets a letter first, then all the
Extended partitions on each drive. Since your system only needs one Primary partition,
you can make your new hard drive an Extended partition to make adding it to your
system less problematic.
Since I already had data on my new hd, I didn't want to reformat it, so I used Partition
Magic 5.0. It worked very nicely. They have version 7.0 out now, which I imagine
works even better. I was able to convert the new hd's Primary partition into an Extended
one and it moved to the last letter in the series of hd's. The cdrom letters still
shifted by one, but that wasn't a problem for me.
Well I hope that helps,
Morgan.
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