Gene E. Bloch brought next idea :
On 1/27/2014, Ed Propes posted:
Gene E. Bloch brought next idea :
On 1/26/2014, Char Jackson posted:
On Sun, 26 Jan 2014 20:58:04 -0500, "(PeteCresswell)"
wrote:

Finally bit the bullet and bought a ZenBook.

Windows 8 isn't quite as traumatic as I was expecting -
especially with the addition of Start8.

I re-partitioned the 500-gig drive into C: System and Z: Data,
splitting the space about fifty-fifty.

What I want, though, is to have that Data partition have the
drive
letter D:, but somebody's using the designation "D:" for one of
the
drives and I can't figure out how to free it up.

I'm guessing it's one of those un-lettered partitions as shown
in this screen snap of DiscManager: http://tinyurl.com/mv4gofs
and Windows 8, for some reason, isn't showing letters.


Anybody have an idea of how to get to the bottom of this?

It's right there in the screen cap that you posted. Your DVD
drive is
currently using "D:".

Right click on the DVD drive and change its drive letter to
something else, then you'll be able to right click on your data
partition and change its letter to D:.

This is rather strange. Everyone but me seems to be seeing a DVD
drive in that screenshot. I see no such thing, only a Drive 0 with
partitions C: and Z: and three unnamed ones, and an unnamed Drive
1 of 22.36GB.

My prior reply to you is based on the above experience.

Strange, I say :-)

Look towards the bottom of the pic. I missed it several times
before I finally saw it and slapped my forward screaming "DOH!"

DOH!

Ed in E Texas

Thanks, Ed.

This happens to be a day when I badly needed a laugh...so /double/
thanks.

Most welcome, glad I served some purpose today!

Ed in E Texas