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To: Jeff Jordan who wrote (9929)1/14/2000 12:05:00 AM
From: Zeuspaul   of 14778
 
Drive lettering

I will add a little to the previous posts.

As indicated the OS assigns C to the primary partition on the first physical drive and then D to the primary on the second physical drive. Then starts filling in E, F, G on the logicals on the first drive and then moves to the logicals on the second physical drive.

If the second physical drive is formatted with no primary partition ie only logical drives then the drive lettering on the second physical drive will start after the letters on the first drive have been assigned.

For example with two harddrives..the first with a primary and two logical partitions and the second with only two logical partitions the drive letters would be C,D,E on the first and F,G on the second harddrive.

One can map harddrive letters in NT..ie change the standard drive sequence..my guess is you can not mess with the C designation.

Win 95 goes not allow for harddrive drive mapping.(CDROM can be mapped)

My preferred method is to have a large C drive with OS and program executables. I use additional harddrives for file and data storage thus avoiding relettering issues....although relettering issues can be addressed and there are good arguements for a small C partition.

Zeuspaul
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