Appreciate help on assigned letters for drives

[Biff]

My primary master is partitioned into two drives C & E. I have now installed a second drive which windows assigned as E and moved my original E portion of the first drive to F. now there is all kinds of programs that don’t work. In sys, device manager, properties the section to allow drive letter change is grayed out. Appreciate any help or ideas you could give

[Eli]

Well you could simply clone (ie. copy) your old e drive, now your f drive, to your new e drive. It's probably not what you had in mind but it would do the trick.

[drdeath]

ok, i THINK this is how you fix it.... i was hoping someone else would post this up here so i wouldnt have to and risk being wrong, but here goes... /forum/smile.gif

i believe that when you "fdisked" the new drive you created a new "primary" partition. when you do this, the "primary" partition on the new drive will come before an "extended" partition on the old drive. to fix it, i believe you need to re-fdisk the new drive, and instead of creating a new primary partition, create one big extended partition, and that should make the new drive F and your old hard drive back to C and E.
I hope this helps (and that im right /forum/smile.gif)!

[felix726]

drdeath I believe you are correct. /forum/smile.gif
As long as the new drive your talking about wasn't a CD-ROM or CD-RW etc.., as long as it is a HDD I believe DOS assigns primary partition letters before extended, so if the new drive is added as an extended partition it should just get thrown on as the next available letter.

[Biff]

Yeh, I think your right drdeath. Thanks for the reply Guys. I seems to me one large drive without an extended partion is going to be the way to go. I did like the idea of just my operating sys and more frequently accesed programs being on the outside of the drive, but not a neccesity. Sys Opt members come through again Thanks