can you manually assign drive letters....

[deep_sky]

i have win98se and i would like to manually assign drive letters for this reason. when i try to do a clean install and i have both of my hard drives hooked up, the setup complains about bad sectors on my second drive, so i go and disconnect it and then setup does not have any problem.
first drive contains
c: e: f:
second drive contains
d:

when scandisk reaches the d drive it blows up. i would like to put the second drive at the end of the drive letter list so i do not get this error.....i hope. or is this issue just something i have to live with?

[Banti]

You should be able to set this up in the system info.

Control Panel->System->Harddives->Second Hardrive

Got to start letter and make it F: or G:

Banti

[JW310]

Use a partitioning tool to get rid of the primary partition on the second hard drive, and make one big secondary partition on it. Fdisk should be able to do this, assuming you don't have any data to lose. Utilities such as Partition Magic will do this, without losing data. Just be sure to back up the needed stuff beforehand, in case anything goes wrong.

JW

[lec169]

You need to change that d: Drive (second Drive) to a extended partition. You have a primary partition on the c or first drive and you have a primary partition on the second drive. You need to delete that partition on the second drive (d) and make it a extended partition. Then when you reboot, your drive will be a follows; The first drive will have 3 partitions, one primary which is "c" and the extended partition on the first drive will be d and e, then on the next drive if you followed my suggestion and deleted the partition and created a extended partion, then they will all be in sequence.

Lec

[deep_sky]

lec has the right of it...i downloaded partitionmagic and it would not delete the partition without deleting the data within. so i just moved everything to my other drive, went into fdisk, and then deleted all partitions on the second drive and then created an extended partition, and that fixed the problem....

[jwmason1]

to continue the thought, I believe the only way to put them in order is to get rid of the partitions. Reason is I believe the order is alway set: Primary partitions first, secondary partitions second. So if your first hard drive has 3 partitions (1 primary, 2 secondary) and your 2nd drive has 4 partitions (1 prime, 2 second.) then the order will be fixed, as such:

C - drive 1, primary partition
D - drive 2, primary partition
E - drive 1, secondary partition #1
F - drive 1, secondary partition #2
G - drive 2, secondary partition #1
H - drive 2, secondary partition #2
I - drive 2, secondary partition #3