Re: [ProgSoc] Win98 hard drive letters

[Martin Gisch <martin@nospam.progsoc.uts.edu.au>]

Looks like Daniel and Murray got it right, I had created a single huge
primary partition on the striped drives, which explains why it appeared
before my old D,E which where logical drives in an extended.

Changing all the registry/shortcut references as Ck suggested would fix
things, but the official MS stance from the knowledge base is actually
this: "It is important to note
   that only the first hard disk in your computer should be set to use a
primary partition, and all other
   hard disks should be set to use an extended partition."

So apparently even Fdisk can do this...I didn't know that either...

Would this setup bother other OS's like linux/*bsd etc? The partition will
likely never have an OS installed in it, only for data storage.

Thanks for all the replies to this. But if anyone stumbles across some
clever registry hack in future which lets win98 assign drive letters
explicitly, please let us know.

MG.

On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Daniel Cafe wrote:

> On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Martin Gisch wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Ok this goes back to the good ol days of dos and the way it selects
> drives.
> 
> order dos names drives is as follows (from memory):
> Primary partitions in the order of
> 
> Primary master
> Primary slave
> Secondary master
> Secondary slave
> 
> Then extended partitions in the order as above
> 
> (dont quote me on this.. Id have to go home and look)
> 
> You could try dodgy tricks as only creating an extended partiton on the
> drive (I think partiton magic will let you do it) but it may cause
> problems in the future.
> 
> I suggest following christians idea of norton.
> 
> 
> 

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