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Old October 12th 06, 06:46 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics
darrenbruin
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Default Drives confusion

Let say I have two identical hard drives Seagate1 and Seagate2. I then
partition them into C:, D:, E:, F: with C: being my boot drive.

1) After a while I now lost track of of which drive letter belongs to which
physical hard drive. How can I tell for example if C: and F: both belongs to
Seagate1?

2) If I did something and it turns out I am now booting from E: is there a
way to switch the drive letter with C:?

Thank you very much for your help.

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Old October 12th 06, 02:03 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics
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Default Drives confusion

darrenbruin wrote:
Let say I have two identical hard drives Seagate1 and Seagate2. I then
partition them into C:, D:, E:, F: with C: being my boot drive.

1) After a while I now lost track of of which drive letter belongs
to which physical hard drive. How can I tell for example if C: and F:
both belongs to Seagate1?

2) If I did something and it turns out I am now booting from E: is
there a way to switch the drive letter with C:?

Thank you very much for your help.


Start Programs Administrative Tools Computer Management Disk
Management

It's all right there.

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Old October 12th 06, 04:20 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics
Ken Blake, MVP
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Default Drives confusion

darrenbruin wrote:

Let say I have two identical hard drives Seagate1 and Seagate2. I then
partition them into C:, D:, E:, F: with C: being my boot drive.

1) After a while I now lost track of of which drive letter belongs
to which physical hard drive. How can I tell for example if C: and F:
both belongs to Seagate1?



Go to Start | Programs | Administrative Tools | Computer Management.
Click on Disk Management and you'll see what partitions are on which
physical drives.


2) If I did something and it turns out I am now booting from E: is
there a way to switch the drive letter with C:?



No. You change any other drive letter but that one.

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