2nd hdd, changing drive letters, windows 2000

[Bastian Kruse]

Hello,
the server system has a primary master with 2 primary partitions C and
D.
If I put a second harddisk with two primary partitions in the drive
letters are changed, so that I have
first hdd: C,E
second hdd: D,F
as the second harddisk also contains two primery partitions.
I can´t nor to do I want to change the partition type to extended,
since the second hdd is the backup of the first hdd.
How can I force windows 2000 not to change drive letter and mess up
all the programms? Is there a way to reserve drive letters for
harddisk partition in Windows 2000 Server.
Thanks in advance.
Bastian

 

[CyberDroog]

the server system has a primary master with 2 primary partitions C and
D.
If I put a second harddisk with two primary partitions in the drive
letters are changed, so that I have
first hdd: C,E
second hdd: D,F
as the second harddisk also contains two primery partitions.
I can´t nor to do I want to change the partition type to extended,
since the second hdd is the backup of the first hdd.
How can I force windows 2000 not to change drive letter and mess up
all the programms? Is there a way to reserve drive letters for
harddisk partition in Windows 2000 Server.

Just go into Disk Administrator and change the drive letters.

 

[Ricardo M. Urbano - W2K/NT4 MVP]

Bastian, CyberDroog's advice is sound, but I'm curious; are you sure the
second partitions are primary?? NTx assigns drive letters to primary
partitions first, then to logical volumes in extended partitions next.