Marztabator Posted September 19, 2003 Share Posted September 19, 2003 I'd like it setup so that if you create a 9x/XP dual-boot system, 9x doesn't automatically change the drive letters for my FAT32 partitions (when it gives the NTFS partitions a miss).Is there a way in which I can force my partitions to use the same letters on both OSes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skyfrog Posted September 19, 2003 Share Posted September 19, 2003 This page might be helpful:http://www.storagereview.com/guide2000/ref...partLetter.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thanatos Posted September 19, 2003 Share Posted September 19, 2003 I think diskpart is what you want. I posted about it here... http://www.neoREMOVEwin.net/forum/index.ph...679&hl=diskpartRemove the 'REMOVE' in the url Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marztabator Posted September 19, 2003 Author Share Posted September 19, 2003 Hmmm. They both seem rather complicated to me. Is there generally a way to enforce drive letters as such without having to completely rebuild my entire partition setup? I use two hard drives, both 40Gb each. FDISK required me to build primary partitions on both. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skyfrog Posted September 19, 2003 Share Posted September 19, 2003 FDISK required me to build primary partitions on both.Are you sure? I'm almost positive I have used it to create a single extended partition on a second drive once. Just choose "Create DOS partition or Logical DOS Drive" and then "Create Extended DOS Partition". The way that DOS (and Win9x) works is they label primary partitions first, then secondary, then removable disks. As far as I know there is no way to change this, other than having only one primary partition and then making the rest of them extended partitions. If you can't get FDISK to do it for some reason, you might try a third party program like Partition Magic or the one Thanatos mentioned.Windows 9x is still going to skip over any NTFS partitions and label the next FAT32 it finds, so you might want to put all of those at the end of your drive. Even if you do that it's going to change the drive letters on any CD-ROM or removeable disks it finds. The only sure way I can think of would be to have no NTFS partitions, but you wouldn't want to do that I don't think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thanatos Posted September 20, 2003 Share Posted September 20, 2003 Diskpart doesn't require you to 'rebuild your partitions', it just remaps the drive letters on a particular OS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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