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

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From: Steve Gilbert
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1992 12:12

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I wrote:

> 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?

Various people, including malloy@nprdc.navy.mil, tashjian@netcom.com,
miller@kroy.com, jb@falstaff.MAE.CWRU.Edu, and j.laidman@cowan.edu.au
replied that this was happening because I'd made the first partition
on my second drive a primary one, rather than an extended one.  The
solution was to repartition my second drive without a primary
partition.

This worked!  Thanks to all for the help.
--
Steve Gilbert					(sgil@netcom.com)

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