Anyway to 'force' drive letters?

[AuraEdge]

Im formatting..gettin ready for college and all.
Well I had my old 20GB drive, which is now secondary master, and my new 30GB which is now primary master. How do I make it so that the whole first drive's partitions will go first (to be C:, D:, E:, and F: ) and the second drives partitions to go after (G:, and H: )?
Right now it goes - First parition of 30GB as C:, and first Partition of 20GB as D:, and then second partition of first drive as E:

BTW, I can FDisk, format, and ghost all I need to..the 30GB is brand new, so its empty.
Also, I plan on putting Win98SE on Partition 1 of Disk1, and WIn2k on Partition2 of Disk1, if that makes a difference.

[This message has been edited by AuraEdge (edited 08-25-2000).]

[howste]

If your second hard drive has a primary partition it will always take the D: letter. What you need to do is set up the new drive without a no primary partition, then set up the secondary partition with all of your logical drives. It's been a while since I've done it, so I can't remember the exact procedure, but it's all done using Fdisk. When you're done, all of your first physical drive's partitions will come first, then all of the second physical drive's partitions.

Good luck http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

Steve

[AuraEdge]

Thanks! I think thatll do it..I can just basically ghost the whole second disk temporaraly, and FDISK the whole second disk, and set up the whole drive as an extended partition, with its 2 logical drives.
If I make my first partition Win98SE and make it 10 gigs, can I still install Win2k on the second partition on that drive and have it do the boot loader?

[cyclone2]

You can put Win 2k on any partition you want.
If you are installing it fresh then bootloader will point to wherever you put it, but if you ghost it to a different partition than it was then you will have to edit the boot.ini to point to its new partition. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

[LiLRiceBoi]

I thought you couldnt boot from an extended dos partition.

[spark25]

Sure if you installed Win 2k from 98 on *C*,and chose *new install,not upgrade*,it would format the other partition on the *C* drive and install there as a dual boot.It suggests first where it would like to go,then you can tell it which partition out of the ones that it shows you to load the OS on.I have had much better luck with the dual boot when each OS is on a different drive
though.
Don't worry about those letters now,in your first semester they'll go over all the alphabet again. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

[This message has been edited by spark25 (edited 08-26-2000).]