>        For reasons I don't understand Windows organizes the partitions
differently, 1st partitions of the 4gig drive is C:, the old drive is D:
and the second partitions of the new drive is E:.


This is held over from what DOS used to do. The primary partitions of the
drives are mapped to letters first, in the order of how they are attached
to the controllers. The primary master, primary slave, secondary master,
secondary slave. Then the logical drives in the extended partitions, starting
with the same order (primary master, etc) are assigned.

You can work with this to some degree. For example, if you wish to add a new
disk to a system, keeping the original primary master with multiple partitions
in the same order, then do NOT create a primary partition on the new disk,
instead, allocate all the space to the extended partition, and create logical
drive(s) in that extended partition, its letters will then be assigned AFTER
all the partitions on the original drive. You could not have done this in
your situation without destroying the existing data though, because you would
have had to deleted the primary partition, and that would have lost the
existing data (unless you didn't care about it).

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