Slave partition letter conflicts with Master partition

[blackhead]

I have a PC runing Windows 98 with the master drive partitioned into
c,d,e and the slave into c,d with no data on it. But the slave's c
partition is labelled d, and so hides the master's d partition. Does
anyone know a way around this?

 

[Michael Cecil]

I have a PC runing Windows 98 with the master drive partitioned into
c,d,e and the slave into c,d with no data on it. But the slave's c
partition is labelled d, and so hides the master's d partition. Does
anyone know a way around this?

Don't create primary partitions on the slave drive?

From DOS (which is basically what W98 runs on), the primary partitions on
each drive will be lettered sequentially. If you just create a big
extended partition on the slave drive with logical partitions within it,
then I think the lettering will be as you wanted it.

Or just get W2K or newer...

 

[Rolf Blom]

blackhead skrev:

I have a PC runing Windows 98 with the master drive partitioned into
c,d,e and the slave into c,d with no data on it. But the slave's c
partition is labelled d, and so hides the master's d partition. Does
anyone know a way around this?

For win9x & dos, the driveletters are sorted so all primary partitions
come first in drive-letter assignment, which causes the effect you see.

If you don't need to boot on the second drive, re-partition it and only
use extended partitions, then the primary C/D partition order won't get
messed up.

/Rolf