Re: [ProgSoc] Win98 hard drive letters

["Murray Grant" <ligos@nospam.yahoo.com>]

> > 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).

I have a vague memory of being able to subst a drive over another 
one, ie subst d: to become c:. I'm not sure if this helps, but I'm too 
tired to be bothered thinking about it just now ;-)

>  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.

I second Jedd's idea.

Another possibility is to fiddle the partition types around so the 
order win98 finds them is different. I believe win9x/dos searches 
through each of your hard drives allocating letters to primary 
partitions, then does a second scan allocating letters to any file 
system in an extended partition. You could hack up the partition 
table to do this without Partition Magic, although it mightn't really 
be worth the effort.




Murray Grant
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