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Secondary drive letter assignment


Justin-Credible

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I have two partitions on a hard drive, one with BartPE and the other with some data.

I know that it is not possible to change the boot drive from X: (as it is hardcoded) but is it possible to have the secondary partition mount as drive Y: or any other specific letter?

I want the secondary partition to always show up as Y:

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I have two partitions on a hard drive, one with BartPE and the other with some data.

I know that it is not possible to change the boot drive from X: (as it is hardcoded) but is it possible to have the secondary partition mount as drive Y: or any other specific letter?

I want the secondary partition to always show up as Y:

WIN PE automatically assignes a drive letter to existing partitons on the HD.

If you have an existing Drive C: it will show up as Drive C:

Same for D: E:... etc...

That is one of the reasons MS Uses X: as the PE Volume.

You can change the letters with Diskpart but that will entail some fancy scripting.

The pronblem you will have is making it work on every machine that you PE boot on. Diskpart is not the most firendly tool in the world.

Chris

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Another quick way to seemingly do what you are looking to do is to build the BartPE .iso file and then use daemon tools v. 3.47 or similar to mount the .iso file as a cd in the virtual cd-rom drive.

Next using the Disk Management interface you can change the drive letter to Y:\

Hope this helps.

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