Ed, Thanks for writing to the list on this subject BUT the issue is actually quite different than just as you have expressed.
The problem is that my system is not just going to be a single OS system, such as apparently yours with XP - mine is going to be actually a triple boot, with Win98SE, Win2K Pro, and WinXP Pro. Due to work I am trying to deal with as well as some utility issues, I need to be able to boot into any of the OSs. What you have written is quite true for Win2K as well as WinXP, since XP is based on the 2K engine. BUT the problem comes with 98 and Dos operations, since it works in many ways quite different from 2K and XP. One the most important is that, as far as I know, you do not have the capability of changing drive letters especially of hard drive partitions as you do with the other OSs. So the issues become one for me of how things "naturally" show up, and try to maintain things from one OS to the other OSs, otherwise I would have to write up myself a "cheat sheet" of how things are set in one versus the others. The biggest issue is I need to figure out which drive letter my primary partition on the Promise connected hard drive will end up getting, when compared to the hard drive connected to the motherboard controller - will it end up, without any mods, as Drive D:, or follow the last drive letter from my extended partition and its logical drives on the drive on the motherboard controller. The issue is MOST important if I have to boot up in Dos itself, which I can if I go to boot for Win98 and then let it's menuing system work. Since native Dos (not Dos from within Win98), of itself, does see the drive or anything connected to the Promise card, it just ends up what is connect and referred to by the motherboard controller. The way things are right now, I probably am going to have to try it and see what I naturally get as a result. Ralph Ed wrote: > > Ralph, > It is quite easy to assign/change drive letters using WinXP. > I am running 3-HD, and (1-ZIP250) on a Promise card, which I assigned as B:, > however it is listed as Drive:(0) > Drive-0 on Promise Card which I assigned as B: > Drive-1 has three partitions C:, E:, F: > Drive-2 has 3-partitions J:, K:, L: > Drive-3 is my external USB listed as D: > CD-ROM (0) H: > CD-ROM (1) I: > To change Drive letters inXP > > START-ADMINISTRATIVE TOOLS-COMPUTER MANAGEMENT-STORAGE-DISK MANAGEMENT > > Simply assign a higher drive letter larger than any on the list to the drive > you wish to change. > For instance, to switch CD-ROM (0) from H: to I:, first assign CD-ROM (0) > the letter M: > which is un-assigned at the moment. Next, change CD-ROM (1) to H: > Now change Drive: (1) M to I: > I changed all my drive letters after I formatted, partitioned and > changed/added HD. > Hope this will be of some help. > Ed ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
