At 01:24 PM 4/4/98 -0500, you wrote:
>That is how all BIOS deal with hard drives.
>The primary partition(s) of the actual physical drive(s) is/are always
>labeled first,
>in the order of the IDE connections
>
>Primary Master, primary partition = C:
>Primary Slave, primary partition = D:
>Secondary Master, primary partition =E:
>Secondary Slave, primary partition - F:
>
>then any logical drives are assigned.
>Primary Master, first logical partition =G:
>Primary Master, second logical partition = H:
>etc etc.
>
>Naturally all drive letter assignments would move upwards if all
>physical
>drive slots are not filled.
>
>Jim Meagher
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Well that is true but you can make the 1.2 gig drive an EXTENDED partition
and it will reside very happily at drive [E:]. As long as the drive is set
to be a primary partition it is going to want the next available Primary
slot. Which in this case is drive [D:]. the next question to ask is how
large is the [D:] partition? if it is small enough you might try the XCOPY
(see long extended thread on Re: [PCBUILD] Adding 2nd hard drive isn't over
yet)to copy the appropriate directory structures to the newer drive. I hope
this helps.

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