Assigning Drive letters?

[jl123]

Is there a way to do this or does the computer do this automatically?? I'm not sure if i've ever known this. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif Maybe i do but can't think about it. But maybe i don't. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

~Joel(jl123)

[Dave_H]

It's easy to assign drive letters for a CD-Rom, and removable drives like a Zip drive.
With floppy drives, your basicly stuck with the first or only one being "A" and a second one being "B".
Hard drives will always start with the first active partition as "C". If you have one hard drive with several partitions and would like to add another, you need to plan ahead because the way you partition the second drive will affect the way the drive letters end up.
Hope that helps Joel http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif
Dave

[BBA]

With Win9x and DOS, it follows physical drives first then logical drives next. An extended partition on the first drive will be the letter after the letter of the primary partition of the last physical drive.

Unless you are running Windows NT. You can assign any drive letter you want with Windows NT ( and W2K )

[ghostface]

for stuff like cdroms, zip drives, etc you can just look under device properites from the system properties dialog. you can pick the range of drive letters for your cdrom and so on. that way if you plan on adding some more hds, you can pick your cd drive letters really like like j: or so, so when you install a new hd, it won't mess up any install paths.

[Ed_S]

When you do assign letters for the CD or other drives, I'd recommend skipping some letters to allow for future HD additions or partition modifications.
I always set the CD drive to M: and a zip drive to Z: , that way there's room for growth w/o changing them again.

Ed