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To: NickSE who wrote (9022)	10/8/1999 11:19:00 AM
From: PMS Witch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Hard drive letters ... Right click My Computer, Properties, Device Manage tab. Select 'View by type', Expand 'Disk' tree. Highlight drive, Click Properties, Settings tab. Try to change letter assignments near bottom of window. Cheers, PW. P.S. Yes, PM will do this for you.

To: NickSE who wrote (9022)	10/8/1999 11:55:00 AM
From: RJL	Respond to of 14778

I agree with PW on this point. Drive letter mappings for extra hard-drives become an issue when you create additional primary partitions. It'll instantly want to take over D, E, F, etc. Logical partitions wouldn't screw with drive mappings like that.

To: NickSE who wrote (9022)	10/8/1999 6:43:00 PM
From: Wizzz	Respond to of 14778

The secondary hard drive is a physical drive? If so, the way to do it without having to reassign hard drive letters at all, is to partition the new physical drive into a very small primary partition and a very large secondary extended (logical) partition. In the primary partition, make sure that the drive (ghost) remains unformatted. The controller, when it boots, will take a look first at your primary physical drive, logical partition one, and assign it as "C." It will then look at the secondary physical drive, logical partition one, and seeing that no logical partition has been formatted in that area, will NOT assign any value at all. The controller will then return to primary physical drive, extended partition, and begin assigning drive letters to the logical partitions within the extended partition. Afterward, it will move to the secondary physical drive and begin assigning letters to the logical drives it finds within the extended partition. I have three physical drives, two of which have unformatted primary partitions and several logical drives within each of their extended partitions. The unformatted primary partitions are 3.9 Meg and 7.8 Meg respectively (one's a 2.5 Gig, the other a 6.4 Gig). Compared to the available space, losing 3.9 and 7.8 Meg to the primary partitions doesn't bother me a bit. What WOULD bother me would be to try to rearrange all those stinking drive letters! SMD