Re: Don't want D: as 1st partition on 2nd drive

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From: Jim Berilla
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 1992 13:48

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In article <1992Nov3.024747.20888@netcom.com>, sgil@netcom.com (Steve Gilbert) writes:
|> I've just added a second hard drive to my system, but this has caused
|> a problem with DOS 5.0 and the drive letters it uses.  Originally, my
|> first drive had multiple partitions, C: thru K:.  Now DOS insists that
|> D: be the first partition on the second drive, which means that all
|> the partition letters on the first drive beyond C: have been shifted by
|> one, to E: thru L:.  Is there any way to get DOS to assign the first
|> partition on the second drive as L:, thereby leaving C: thru K: on drive
|> one?

When you fdisk the second drive, don't create a primary partition.  Just
create the extended partition and the logical drive(s) inside it.

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      Jim Berilla / jb@falstaff.MAE.cwru.edu / +1 216 368 6776

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