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To: Spots who wrote (917)	5/30/1998 8:53:00 PM
From: Zeuspaul	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Drive Letter Assignments From the Partition Magic users guide Drive letters are first assigned to primary partitions in the order they appear on hard disks. Drive letter C: is assigned to the active primary partition on the first hard disk, then D: is assigned to the first recognized primary partition on the next hard disk, and so on, until a letter has been assigned to the first recognized primary partition on all hard disks. Next all logical partitions with a file system that the OS recognizes are assigned drive letters, starting with those on the first hard disk and proceeding in order. Finally, CD-ROM drives and other types of removable media drives... Assuming two hard disks in the same computer and one clones NT on the first to the second. Will the machine still boot normally? ie no influence from second drive. If one goes into the mainboard BIOS and changes the sequence such that the second drive is found first will the machine then boot from the second drive with no influence from the original drive? In the later case the second drive should now assume drive designation C: as it is the first primary partition found. Zeuspaul