Need help with HDD problem

[speedy4500]

Ok, here's the situation: I have two hard drives now. Before this time I had one that was partitioned into a C and D drive. I installed the other hard drive hoping I could make it into a K drive...unfortunately that didn't happen. The C drive is still the same as before, but the new disk took the D label and bumped the partition on the old drive to E, also bumping my CD ROMs to F and G, respectively. For whatever reason, the shortcuts and all that good stuff are having trouble with these new drive letters. How on earth do I change what is now the D drive (the new disk) to K? I made a boot floppy and I looked through Fdisk but I couldn't find anything that looked like what I wanted to do, so instead of risking losing all my data, I just left it alone. BTW, at this time, the C drive has system files on it, the D drive has nothing, and the E drive has program files and all the other stuff like that. So how do I make my D drive into a different letter and bump all the other drives back down? I have never had this problem before, but that's probably because they've always been new installs, instead of upgrades.

My system specs are:
Intel AL400LX mobo
P2 266 not overclocked anymore :-(
160 MB RAM
GeForce2 MX 32 SDR
Hard Drives
-Maxtor 15GB as master
-old Quantum 6 GB as slave
CDROMs
-TDK 24/10/40B as master
-Mitsumi 24x CDROM as slave
old skool Yamaha DS-XG sound card

[Monaco]

lol you seem to have found out the hard way that windows assigns drive letters strangely:)

If I am not mistaken, it goes: first primary partitions get a letter, then all the extended drives get one, then CD-ROM drives and stuff.

the only info I need- what OS are you using? In win2000, it's as easy as opening Disk Management under Admin Tools. Right click on the drive you want to change, and follow the prompts. Win95/98 is a bit more difficult but not much- you need to reserve drive letters. As I recall, reserve all the letters except the one you want the drive to use and it will take that letter on the next boot. I'll boot to 98 and take a look but I think that's it:)

[speedy4500]

Yeah, I am using Win98SE. I'll check around in the Disk Management area and see what happens. Thanks for the lead. Surely someone else must have run across this problem at one time or another.

[Shadow ÒÓ]

there is no disk management area in 98.

Right click My Computer

Choose Properties

Choose Device manager

Click the + by Disk drives

Double click any of the drives.....under settings you should find what you are looking for.

[SteenkyBastage]

win 9x is crap for drive letters...

here's what it wants to do.

primary hard drive, primary partition first (c drive)
secondary hard drive, primary partition next (d drive)
primary hard drive, extra partitions go next
secondary hard drive, extra partitions go last

after that comes other drive types (cd, zip, jaz, etc)

in win9x i was not aware you could force the secondary/primary partition off of d drive. i have always been successful changing cd, zip, jaz, etc drive letters, but win9x wont let me change hard disk partition letters.

the way i would say to fix it (if your partitions are adequate size) is to copy the stuff from e: to d:, f: to e:, and so on. so that all your shortcuts work. you could also try to run a proggie that fixes the registry (it'll look thru the registry and try to fix broken links).