New Drive Letters

[Guest]

I am ready to install a new 160gb harddrive. My current D: drive is a 60gb
single partition. D: is a second drive with 20mb (data storage). E: and F:
are CD/DVD writer drives. If I install the new drive with 2 partitions, keep
all other drives, what will happen to the current drive assignments? Will I
have to manually change all the links, or will this be done by WinXP Pro?

 

[DL]

winxp will manage drive letters

 

[Uwe Sieber]

I am ready to install a new 160gb harddrive. My current D: drive is a 60gb
single partition. D: is a second drive with 20mb (data storage). E: and F:
are CD/DVD writer drives. If I install the new drive with 2 partitions, keep
all other drives, what will happen to the current drive assignments? Will I
have to manually change all the links, or will this be done by WinXP Pro?

XP will not change the existing letters. The partitions
on the new drive will get the first free letters, G: and H:
in you case.


Greetings from Germany

Uwe

 

[Ron Martell]

I am ready to install a new 160gb harddrive. My current D: drive is a 60gb
single partition. D: is a second drive with 20mb (data storage). E: and F:
are CD/DVD writer drives. If I install the new drive with 2 partitions, keep
all other drives, what will happen to the current drive assignments? Will I
have to manually change all the links, or will this be done by WinXP Pro?

Windows XP will normally give the new drives letters that are higher
than any existing assignments so in your case the new partitions
should show up as G: and H: provided you leave all of the existing
drives in place. However if you replace one of the existing drives
with the new one then the first partition on the new drive will
inherit that same drive letter and the second partition would become
G:.

Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP (1997 - 2006)
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

"Anyone who thinks that they are too small to make a difference
has never been in bed with a mosquito."

 

[Guest]

I knew that WinXP would manage the drive letters, just didn't know in what
order. It seemed to me that years ago, that the drive letters were
"re-assigned" and shortcuts had to be edited. Anyway, new drive is installed
and all is well - mostly. Had a glitch with System Restore not working (fix
in the Newsgroups), Norton wanting to be re-authorized - had to unistall 3
times for NAV to LiveUpdate correctly (fix on website), Hyperbowl not working
(license glitch). Scale of 1-10...it was an 8. Maxtor does a great job with
software!!