On 10 Jan 99, at 23:13, KB wrote:

> I think this may have been addressed before, but I can't recall the
> answer.  I just installed a second hard drive in my system (Win98).  The
> primary drive (original) is 3.2gig with two partitions. The secondary
> drive (new) is 6.8gig with four partitions.  All my programs were are on
> the 3.2.  When I installed the new drive, Windows named the partitions
> as follows:
>
>                                             C: Partition 1 on 3.2
>                                             D: Partition 1 on 6.8
>                                             E: Partition 2 on 3.2
>                                             F-H: Partitions 2-4 on 6.8
>
> Since my programs were on the "original"  D: drive , and it is now
> renamed E:, you can imagine I am having all sorts of problems.
>
> Is there a way to force Win98 to rename the drives back to C: and D: on
> the 3.2 drive and then continue with E: on the new drive?  (Please don't
> tell me I am going to have to reinstall everything that was on the D:
> drive.)

  The order of drive letter assignments indicates that D: is a primary
partition.  To get partition 2 on the 3.2 seen ahead of partition 1 on
the 6.8, two things must be true:

1. Partition 2 on the 3.2 must be an extended partition containing one
or more volumes.  This is *probably* already the case.

2. There must not be any primary FAT partitions on the 6.8.  It's
perfectly legal to just have an extended partition, subdivided into one
or more volumes.  F-H: may already be set up this way.  If you haven't
put stuff on the second drive, you might just use FDISK to start over.
If you need to preserve data, you can make this happen with a utility
like Partition Magic, shrinking/moving/copying/moving/growing
partitions without, generally speaking, imperilling your data.


David G

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