Drive letters after removing 2nd HDD?

[Kenny]

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I have 2 HDD's with multiple partitions.

Disk 1: C (Primary), K, L, M, N & O
Disk 2: E, F, G, H & I

What happens to the drive letters if I remove Disk 2, I may be replacing it
with a much larger one?



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Kenny

 

[Guest]

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Hi,

The drive letters will not change on the primary disk unless you elect to
change them (unlike Win9x where it automatically, and sometimes
disastrously, relettered the volumes). Volumes created on the new drive will
be given the first alphabetically available letters unless you designate
otherwise.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"Kenny" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
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>I have 2 HDD's with multiple partitions.
>
> Disk 1: C (Primary), K, L, M, N & O
> Disk 2: E, F, G, H & I
>
> What happens to the drive letters if I remove Disk 2, I may be replacing
> it
> with a much larger one?
>
>
>
> --
>
> Kenny
>
>
>
>

 

[Guest]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics (More info?)

I do not know if the letters may change by default when you remove one disk,
but whatever happens you can reset them later. Go to start-programs-Admin
tools-Computer management-Storage-disk management then right click any disk
in the bottom right segment of the window to get an option to change the
drive letter.



"Kenny" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
news:%23PNJnAmkEHA.1652@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> I have 2 HDD's with multiple partitions.
>
> Disk 1: C (Primary), K, L, M, N & O
> Disk 2: E, F, G, H & I
>
> What happens to the drive letters if I remove Disk 2, I may be replacing
it
> with a much larger one?
>
>
>
> --
>
> Kenny
>
>
>
>

 

[Kenny]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics (More info?)

Thanks for the replies.

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Kenny


"Rick "Nutcase" Rogers" <rick@mvps.org> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> The drive letters will not change on the primary disk unless you elect to
> change them (unlike Win9x where it automatically, and sometimes
> disastrously, relettered the volumes). Volumes created on the new drive
will
> be given the first alphabetically available letters unless you designate
> otherwise.
>
> --
> Best of Luck,
>
> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
> www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
>
> "Kenny" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
> news:%23PNJnAmkEHA.1652@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> >I have 2 HDD's with multiple partitions.
> >
> > Disk 1: C (Primary), K, L, M, N & O
> > Disk 2: E, F, G, H & I
> >
> > What happens to the drive letters if I remove Disk 2, I may be replacing
> > it
> > with a much larger one?
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> > Kenny
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>