On 1/26/2014, Char Jackson posted:
On Mon, 27 Jan 2014 02:17:45 +0000, Good Guy
wrote:

On 27/01/2014 01:58, (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?

Drive D is normally the CD/DVD drive and I don't think you can
re-assign it. It is like C drive is c drive and it can't be given
anything else.

Not true. You can change optical drive letters all day long. Whether
you should or not, is another question. In this case, on a brand new
system, I don't see any issues with changing it.

Has the system got a CD/DVD drive? Have you checked your system by
going to "ThisPC" in Windows 8 to see what is this drive.

You can see the DVD drive in the screen cap linked above.

No, I can't. Not even on my computer's disk manager, where I know I
have a DVD drive with letter D:. OTOH, on my machines, a DVD drive is
visible in the Explorer even when there's no disk in it, but that is
(or was in prior versions) configurable.

I do see an unlettered drive of ~22GB. An optical drive with no disk in
it would show in the Explorer's property dialog as having 0 bytes...

If I were curious, I'd assign it a safe letter, like F: or something,
that won't conflict with anything, and look at it in Windows Explorer
(File Explorer or whatever it's now called). After satisfying my
curiosity (thereby probably proving to myself that I have no idea what
is!) I'd remove the letter again.

My suspicion: the drive is a hybrid with an SSD auxiliary.

Flames welcome :-)

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)