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> From: PCBUILD - PC Hardware discussion List
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Errol
> Sent: April 4, 1998 05:07
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> Subject: [PCBUILD] Hard Drive letters out of sync.
>
>
> Greetings to all you clever People,
>
> I wonder if somebody can help me with a problem........
>
> I had only one hard drive on my system (Western Digital
> Caviar 3.1 GIG) which was partitioned as C: and D: drives.
>
> I was given a Samsung 1.2 GIG hard drive that a friend did
> not need anymore, so I thought I will install this drive as
> drive E: and use it to copy my data files to as an extra
> backup.
>
> So I installed the correctly jumperd Samsung as a slave on
> the primary IDE channel, set the CMOS to see this drive and
> switched on.  Windows 95 booted OK and everything seemed
> just fine.
>
> Then I noticed my problem..... My WD was now C: and E: drive
> and the new Samsung was D: drive.  This is causing problems
> with the running of some of my programs as they are looking
> for files on the D: drive which are now on E: drive.
>
> I have tried everything I know to get my WD drive to be C:
> and D: and the Samsung to be E: but to no avail.

        Ahh... the perils of multiple drives. I don't really see a solution to your
problem. The problem is the way the BIOS, DOS and 95 look for and assign
drive letters. Here is how it goes, first is the C:, which is primary
master, primary partition, the next drive D: depends, if you only have one
drive it will be the first partition in the extended partition of the first
drive, if you have two drives it will be the primary partition of the second
drive. In essence, all the primary partitions of all the drives are assigned
letters, and then the system goes back and assigns letters to all of the
logical partitions residing in the extended partition. I know this
sounds very confusing, but that is how it is done. I recommend you reinstall
what you can, and if you feel, go through all the ini files you can and
change every reference from D: to E:, and do the same to the registry,
however back up both first just in case. TTYL