New HD

[Guest]

Today I replaced my second HD (primary slave) with a new HD. The old HD was a signle extended Dos partition labeled drive E: When I installled the new HD I partitioned it using fdisk off a win 98 boot disk. I made 1 extended DOS partition with 2 logical DOS drives E: and F:. I formatted both of these drives FAT32, again using the win98 boot disk and they were labeled drives E: and F:. Howver, XP is reconizing my F: drive not as a HD but as my ZIP drive which it was F: before the new install. Then it is calling the partition which I want as F: as H:. I want my swap the Zip drive letter and the final prtitiion drive letters. Can anyone help me out.


Thanks,
BoB

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi,

Start/run diskmgmt.msc, use this tool to reletter the zip drive to something
else. Then reboot and change the partition from "H" to "F". Then change the
zip to whatever else you want. Unlike Win98, WinXP retains the drive letters
assigned to devices and is not forced by hard-coding to letter drives in a
specific order.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Windows
Windows isn't rocket science! That's my other hobby!

Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone

 

[Richard Urban]

Start over again with the new drive. This time, disconnect the zip drive
before you begin partitioning and formatting. Zip hijacks and holds it's
partition designation. I would suggest you boot into windows at least one
time without the zip drive attached, then do your new drive.

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Regards:

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard

 

[Guest]

Worked great thank

----- Rick "Nutcase" Rogers wrote: ----

Hi

Start/run diskmgmt.msc, use this tool to reletter the zip drive to something
else. Then reboot and change the partition from "H" to "F". Then change the
zip to whatever else you want. Unlike Win98, WinXP retains the drive letters
assigned to devices and is not forced by hard-coding to letter drives in a
specific order

--
Best of Luck

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Window
Windows isn't rocket science! That's my other hobby
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zon
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzon
Win98 Help - www.rickrogers.or