Re: [ProgSoc] Win98 hard drive letters

[jedd <jedd@nospam.progsoc.uts.edu.au>]

On Thu,  8 Feb 2001 21:42, Martin Gisch wrote:
> Quick question to win98 gurus.

 Isn't that an oxymoron?

> One existing drive, with C,D,E partitions. Added a new drive array which
> shows up as D, and pushes up D,E to E,F.
>
> Naturally this breaks pretty much anything that was installed there. In
> w2k I go to disk administrator and simply change its drive letter to
> whatever I want, how do I do this in win98?

 AFAIK there's no way you can do this.  You can do subst's,
 perhaps, under DOS7 .. but that'll add, rather than relocate,
 drive letters.  And it may not even be possible with 98 (I think
 I did it once with 95).

 The best solution (aka my solution) is to set your cdrom to R:
 whenever you install a broken operating system.  It's the closest
 you can get to /cdrom - insofar as independent device naming goes.

 The other solution would be to use partition magic (or similar) to
 add (C: & D:) or (D: & E:) and thereby shuffle the letters back down
 by one -- depending of course on your ability to put the contents
 of one of those drives somewhere safe temporarily, and them being
 continguous partitions.

 Jedd.

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