Hi Robert,
I believe that if you don't create an active DOS partition on the second HD
it will behave itself and just follow the other drive letters.
I always use Partition Magic from PowerQuest to do this, but there are other
ways.
HTH
Mark P.
-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Prickett <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sunday, February 22, 1998 4:05 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] HD: drive/partition sequence


>I KNOW I solved this a long time back, and forgot it.  I had 2 hard
>drives, the first one partitioned, C, D, and E.  After some struggle,
>I got the second hard drive to line up nicely as F.
>
>Now, I replaced the second hard drive with a larger one, and sure
>enough, it jumped right in and took D, thereby bouncing the partitions
>up one letter, and screwing up about 4gb of applications and data.
>
>There IS a way, I just don't remember.  I've tried different
>combinations of HD jumpers, as 'secondary master', 'primary slave',
>and 'secondary master', but the second HD always comes up as D.
>
>Was it fdisk I used before?
>
>
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