Dustinwmew Posted August 5, 2004 Share Posted August 5, 2004 OK, I know that windows looks for a primary partition on the 1st drive letters it, then one on the 2nd drive, then 3rd, ..., then looks for logical partitions on each drive.I need to know what it does for letting if a drive has more then 1 primary partition on it.The microsoft site say that it looks for A primary partition on each drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dustinwmew Posted August 5, 2004 Author Share Posted August 5, 2004 ok, here is the order of my partitions, and drives. Can someone tell my what windows would letter them? Disk 1: 1st primary 2nd primary 1st logical Disk 2: 1st primary 1st, 2nd, 3rd 4th logical CD1 (DVD); CD2 (CD-RW);I put this is this form becuse it is not really hardware, and it is more about Windows XP then just software. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dustinwmew Posted August 24, 2004 Author Share Posted August 24, 2004 does anyone know how haveing more then one primary per-drive does to the lettering? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted August 25, 2004 Share Posted August 25, 2004 Most probably you were looking for this info:http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...&NoWebContent=1and this might be useful too:http://support.microsoft.com/?id=227707In your case it should go like this:Disk 1:1st primary <-if ACTIVE gets letter C:2nd primary <-this one is ignored, or skipped, then assigned J: (but not always, depends on which system/which filesystem)1st logical <-this one is skipped at first pass, then becomes E:Disk 2:1st primary <-gets letter D:1st, 2nd, 3rd 4th logical <-these are skipped at first pass, then become F:,G:,H:,I:CD1 (DVD); <-finally gets letter J: or K: (see above)CD2 (CD-RW); <-finally gets letter K: or L: (see above)It is NOT RECOMMENDED to have more than one PRIMARY partition visible to NT/2K/XP.Moreover, the best thing is to plan the partitioning so that Dos/Windows and NT/2K/XP give the same letters to the same drives.Hope the above helps.jaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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