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drive letters

  • 13-09-2001 9:12am
    #1
    jaarius
    Registered Users Posts: 383 ✭✭


    how do i assign drive letters to drives (win98). i was installing a hdd the other nite and i wanted to assign specific drive letters to specific drive. any help?


    j


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  • #2
    LoLth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,339 ✭✭✭✭LoLth


    disk manager in administrator tools

    you can assign drive letters to the different partitions.

    Just DONT make the new drive the primary partition (or is it active) unless it has an operating system.


  • #3
    beaver
    Closed Accounts Posts: 512 ✭✭✭beaver


    Originally posted by LoLth
    disk manager in administrator tools

    you can assign drive letters to the different partitions.

    Just DONT make the new drive the primary partition (or is it active) unless it has an operating system.

    It's active. Primary is perfectly fine.

    -Ross


  • #4
    halkar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,262 ✭✭✭halkar


    From Win98 you can only change the drive letters of Cd and Dvd-roms unless you use a third party tool like Drive Mapper which is part of Partition Magic suite, disk manager in administrator tools is for NT and Win2K which will let you change the drive letters but not in Win98.


  • #5
    yankinlk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,742 ✭✭✭yankinlk


    what do you want to assign the drive letter to be?

    do you have only 1 partition on the first hard drive?

    have you fdisk'ed the new hd as a primary partition or extended partition (it makes all the sifference in where it gets assigned as a drive letter)

    i think priority goes like this

    c: active primary partition (on old hd)
    d: primary partition (on new hd)
    e: extended partition (on old hd)
    f: cdrom

    or like this:

    c: active primary partition (on old hd)
    d: extended partition (on old hd)
    e: extended partition (on new hd)
    f: cdrom


  • #6
    b20uvkft6m5xwg
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,695 ✭✭✭b20uvkft6m5xwg


    There is some way thro' Nero 5.5.

    i accidentally renamed drives. Cant remember exactly now, but if you have Nero maybe its worth exploring:)


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  • #7
    Victor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,462 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    I understand (but am not technicly competent in the matter) that win95 / 98 does not allow you rename after you put something in that drive / partition. Consequently you should decide early on what each drive should be called.

    My prefences:

    A: Floppy drive #1
    B: Floppy drive #2
    C: Primary HD (System)
    D: CD drive
    E: Secondary HD (Documents)
    F: Secondary HD (Documents)
    .
    .
    .
    Y: Document Server
    Z: ZIP drive

    If you have a small LAN you may wish to say use "J:" for the Document HD on John's PC. This method gets too complicated after 5-6 machince


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