Hi, Joe.
"Drive" letters actually are assigned to VOLUMES, not physical hard drives.
A volume can be either a primary partition or a logical drive in an extended
partition. Drive letters also are assigned to CD/DVD drives, the new USB
"pen" drives, network drives, etc. To give you any specific advice, we'd
have to know about all those things on your computer.
Have you found Disk Management yet? It's an excellent utility built into
Win2K and WinXP. In addition to handling partitioning and formatting chores
that we used to do with FDISK and Format.exe, it also assigns and reassigns
drive letters, like we used to do with Device Manager. The quickest way to
find Disk Management is to type at the Run prompt: diskmgmt.msc
In addition to actually doing the letter assignments, DM provides a very
good Help file that explains a lot about hard drives and file systems.
In your case, perhaps all you really need to do is reassign your CD/DVD
drives from D: and E: to something like X: and Y:. Get them far away from
your HD letters so that you won't trip over them every time you add or
reorganize a hard drive. Then you can assign the volumes on your HDs to D:
and E: - or whatever you like.
RC
