From: Andrew Beals (bandy_at_cinnamon.com)
Date: Mon Apr 01 2002 - 15:22:15 EST
It's Bill Doing What He Thinks Is Best For You.
Your best bet is to reformat the second HDD and when you create the partition
on it, make them secondary dos partitions, not primary! That way they'll get
lettered after the secondary on your first drive.
andy
On Mon, 01 Apr 2002 14:10:29 -0600, "David Reid" <dwreid_at_hiwaay.net> wrote:
> Greetings list,
>
> When I boot up with my 2nd HDD adapter, the driver letter assignment of
> my system goes arye, is there a bios setting I can make to eliminate
> this? In other words, force my regular assignments, here is my
> configuration:
>
> One Primary HDD, partitioned in two (C: and D:) which I wish to
> maintain.
>
> When I boot with my 2nd harddrive in the ultrabay, my "D:" partition
> get's shoved to drive letter "E:" and the 2nd HDD takes over the "D:"
> assignment. I want the 2nd hard drive in the adapter to take the "E:"
> assignment leaving C & D alone.
>
> I have in Device manager, my CDROM assignment options as E: and E:,
> could this be the culprit (noting that with the 2nd hard drive in, there
> is no CDROM).
>
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Dave
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