Adding a hard drive

[Peter G]

Question.

I am adding a har drive to my system which currently has a 60GB partitioned
into C & D drives. In the past whenever I have added a hard drive it has
taken the D position and pushed the "old" D down to E position.

I believe there is a way to prevent this happening?

I want to retain the C & D where they are and the new drive to become E & F.
Is this possible by setting the partition typ at Fdisk time or somehow?

Runing XP on a Sony Desktop.

TIA,

Peter

[Doug Knox MS-MVP]

This doesn't occur with XP. XP will assign the next available drive
letters, even if they're after your CD-ROM drives. The change of drive
letters was caused, in DOS based systems, because of the way DOS assigns
drive letters. XP remembers what drive letter was assigned to what
partition, and won't change it arbitrarily.

Once you install the new drive, right click My Computer, select Manage, Disk
Management. There you can re-assign drive letters to all but the boot/system
drive(s).

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"Peter G" > wrote in message
...
> Question.
>
> I am adding a har drive to my system which currently has a 60GB
partitioned
> into C & D drives. In the past whenever I have added a hard drive it has
> taken the D position and pushed the "old" D down to E position.
>
> I believe there is a way to prevent this happening?
>
> I want to retain the C & D where they are and the new drive to become E &
F.
> Is this possible by setting the partition typ at Fdisk time or somehow?
>
> Runing XP on a Sony Desktop.
>
> TIA,
>
> Peter
>
>

[Peter G]

Thanks Doug,

"Doug Knox MS-MVP" > wrote in message
...
> This doesn't occur with XP. XP will assign the next available drive
> letters, even if they're after your CD-ROM drives. The change of drive
> letters was caused, in DOS based systems, because of the way DOS assigns
> drive letters. XP remembers what drive letter was assigned to what
> partition, and won't change it arbitrarily.
>
> Once you install the new drive, right click My Computer, select Manage,
Disk
> Management. There you can re-assign drive letters to all but the
boot/system
> drive(s).
>
> --
> Doug Knox, MS-MVP Windows XP/ Windows Smart Display
> Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes
> http://www.dougknox.com
> --------------------------------
> Associate Expert
> ExpertZone - http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
> --------------------------------
> Please reply only to the newsgroup so all may benefit.
> Unsolicited e-mail is not answered.
>
> "Peter G" > wrote in message
> ...
> > Question.
> >
> > I am adding a har drive to my system which currently has a 60GB
> partitioned
> > into C & D drives. In the past whenever I have added a hard drive it has
> > taken the D position and pushed the "old" D down to E position.
> >
> > I believe there is a way to prevent this happening?
> >
> > I want to retain the C & D where they are and the new drive to become E
&
> F.
> > Is this possible by setting the partition typ at Fdisk time or somehow?
> >
> > Runing XP on a Sony Desktop.
> >
> > TIA,
> >
> > Peter
> >
> >
>
>

[Peter G]

Just like you said, it showed up as 2 drives down below the DVD and CD-ROM,
I managed to reassign it to further down, ge that beats the way DOS used to
do it.

Again, thanks.

Peter

"Doug Knox MS-MVP" > wrote in message
...
> This doesn't occur with XP. XP will assign the next available drive
> letters, even if they're after your CD-ROM drives. The change of drive
> letters was caused, in DOS based systems, because of the way DOS assigns
> drive letters. XP remembers what drive letter was assigned to what
> partition, and won't change it arbitrarily.
>
> Once you install the new drive, right click My Computer, select Manage,
Disk
> Management. There you can re-assign drive letters to all but the
boot/system
> drive(s).
>
> --
> Doug Knox, MS-MVP Windows XP/ Windows Smart Display
> Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes
> http://www.dougknox.com
> --------------------------------
> Associate Expert
> ExpertZone - http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
> --------------------------------
> Please reply only to the newsgroup so all may benefit.
> Unsolicited e-mail is not answered.
>
> "Peter G" > wrote in message
> ...
> > Question.
> >
> > I am adding a har drive to my system which currently has a 60GB
> partitioned
> > into C & D drives. In the past whenever I have added a hard drive it has
> > taken the D position and pushed the "old" D down to E position.
> >
> > I believe there is a way to prevent this happening?
> >
> > I want to retain the C & D where they are and the new drive to become E
&
> F.
> > Is this possible by setting the partition typ at Fdisk time or somehow?
> >
> > Runing XP on a Sony Desktop.
> >
> > TIA,
> >
> > Peter
> >
> >
>
>

[Doug Knox MS-MVP]

You're welcome :)

--
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Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes
http://www.dougknox.com
--------------------------------
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"Peter G" > wrote in message
...
> Just like you said, it showed up as 2 drives down below the DVD and
CD-ROM,
> I managed to reassign it to further down, ge that beats the way DOS used
to
> do it.
>
> Again, thanks.
>
> Peter
>
> "Doug Knox MS-MVP" > wrote in message
> ...
> > This doesn't occur with XP. XP will assign the next available drive
> > letters, even if they're after your CD-ROM drives. The change of drive
> > letters was caused, in DOS based systems, because of the way DOS assigns
> > drive letters. XP remembers what drive letter was assigned to what
> > partition, and won't change it arbitrarily.
> >
> > Once you install the new drive, right click My Computer, select Manage,
> Disk
> > Management. There you can re-assign drive letters to all but the
> boot/system
> > drive(s).
> >
> > --
> > Doug Knox, MS-MVP Windows XP/ Windows Smart Display
> > Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes
> > http://www.dougknox.com
> > --------------------------------
> > Associate Expert
> > ExpertZone - http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
> > --------------------------------
> > Please reply only to the newsgroup so all may benefit.
> > Unsolicited e-mail is not answered.
> >
> > "Peter G" > wrote in message
> > ...
> > > Question.
> > >
> > > I am adding a har drive to my system which currently has a 60GB
> > partitioned
> > > into C & D drives. In the past whenever I have added a hard drive it
has
> > > taken the D position and pushed the "old" D down to E position.
> > >
> > > I believe there is a way to prevent this happening?
> > >
> > > I want to retain the C & D where they are and the new drive to become
E
> &
> > F.
> > > Is this possible by setting the partition typ at Fdisk time or
somehow?
> > >
> > > Runing XP on a Sony Desktop.
> > >
> > > TIA,
> > >
> > > Peter
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>