Oops, I just read Dan Seur's explanation right after I responded to yours.
Sorry for the redundant email.
John
"Dave Patrick" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> You can use Disk Management to reassign non-system/boot partition drive
> letters.
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
> Microsoft MVP [Windows NT/2000 Operating Systems]
>
> "barata" wrote:
> > In Win98 if I change my CD drive letter from D to Z, all the drives with
> > letters after D would shift one letter to the left(F would become E,
> > etc...). The same would happen if I removed a second hard drive(whose
1st
> > partitions is always D), all the drive letters would shift over one
slot.
> >
> > But in Win2000, after a recent addition of a new hard drive as the
master
> > hard drive, and the original hard drive placed as slave, initially my CD
> Rom
> > was given D as a drive letter. I changed that to Z and expected all the
> > other letters to shift over one, so that E should have become D,
etc...).
> > But this didn't happen and I'm left with C, E,F,G,H,I and Z. I don't
know
> > if that means there is a hidden partition at D or if this is just a
> > characteristic of Win2000. Partition Magic 8 doesn't show anything
> > inbetween C and E, but it's a new version and I'm not familiar with its
> > workings yet so I don't trust what it shows.
> >
> > Would someone set me straight on this?
> >
> > John
> >
> >
>
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