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Date: | Fri, 6 Aug 1999 08:29:33 PDT |
From: | Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com > |
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To: | scoug-help@scoug.com |
Subject: | SCOUG-Help: Help Desk Request |
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bhs@beaconheights.com wrote:
>
> fdisk
> I am adding another drive to my warp 4 system
> When I go to partion the drive it assigns it as D:
> The problem is I already have a D,E,F and G partition
> is there any way to force it to be H:
> this problem shows it's self when the path
> to various programs changes drives.
Don't put a primary partition on that new drive. Just make it one large
extended partition, and then set up one or more logical partitions
inside the extended partition.
Primary partitions get drive letters before the logical partitions do.
(Extended partitions don't get drive letters since they are "containers"
for logical partitions.)
Technically, a drive can only have four primary partitions because
that's all the space there is in the partition table on each drive.
Primary partitions get drive letters.
To allow for more than four partitions on a drive, a primary partition
may be "flagged" as an "extended partition". Extended partitions don't
get drive letters. But in the space that the extended partition takes
up, you can create one or more "logical partitions" and the logical
partitions get drive letters. There's technically no limit to the
number of logical partitions, but your operating system will run out of
drive letters if you create too many.
Your second physical hard drive is getting a "D:" drive letter because
there's a primary partition on it. Instead, just create one large
extended partition on that drive and then put one or more logical
partitions inside that extended partition. The logical partitions will
get drive letters that are higher than the ones on your first drive.
- Peter Skye
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