Robert:

What you need to do is make the second hard drive an extended partition. as
long as its a primary partition its will take the second drive letter. And
yes you use Fdisk to resolve this issue.

Brian Coe
CM Productions


At 09:09 PM 2/22/98 GMT, you wrote:
>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?
>
>
>My Windows 95 Crisis Center
>http://home.earthlink.net/~robertpr
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