If you create 2 primary partitions on 2 harddrives ( 2 on
one wouldn't be possible using fdisk) the first primary
partition would be called c: (on drive 1) the second drive
d:(on drive 2) the first extended partition (on drive 1)
would get the next free drive letter e: the primary (or
first if you like) partitions will always  get the first
available letters of the alphabet.
drive 1 (primary) c: (extended) e:
drive 2 (primary) d:

Kees Kouwen.


----- Original Message -----
From: Doug & Sharon White
Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 1999 6:39 AM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Accessing Multiple drives

        Those of you who wrote back to me to ask about how
the partitions were
organized where right.  After I ran fdisk I assumed that the
2 partitions
on the new 4gig drive were C: and D: and that the old 2gig
drive, which I
installed as a slave was drive E:.

        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:.

        I could have seen it if I had looked more closely at
what fdisk did but I
figured that the "logical" order would prevail.

        Dunno why the system mixes them up like
that......but......I am all
figured out now and the drives are all visible and
accessible.

        Thanks a bunch guys...........

        Doug White

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