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To: Esteban who wrote (39158)	2/2/2004 10:17:22 AM
From: Jerry in Omaha	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110626

Esteban, You wrote: << You'll get used the drive nomenclature, don't you think?>> Oh yes. No problem there. I'll just have to use my wetware to code an emulation algorithm that runs only when I'm sitting in front of my computer and that doesn't run when I'm on other machines. Oh, well. <sigh> It's just another patch in the Microsoft world anyway, dontcha know. Nothing new to see here folks...move along. Just another guy fumbling with his switches. I purchased a used PartitionMagic 7.0 for $16 and it arrived Saturday. I did some research and found that the later versions weren't terribly better than 7.0 and had a PDF file instead of a hardcopy manual. I liked your advice in your linked posting. Don't partition everything right away. I see that Jochen sent some links that look interesting. Anyway, according to my friend Gary (who's conducting an interesting experiment I'll relay in another posting) PartitionMagic allows for the renaming of all drive letters. I had a question regarding files and whether the drive letter in stored files would change too which Gary helped me think through. Let me know if I've got this figured out right or not. Files really don't use the drive letter to remember where they are stored. They remember the machine language address of the volume where the file is stored. When reporting that address to us users the OS answers the question, "Hey, what letter are we using for the root volume?" And then it automatically displays that letter on all files stored on that volume. Therefore, after changing drive letters to default values, files formerly that were located on Drive F:\\something\something, will display their address as C:\\something\something. Do I have that about right? Thanks for your suggestions. Jerry in Omaha