[JAMES31G]

What determines the drive letter when installing a second hard drive?

a.The drive manufacturer

b.The end user

c.The operating system

d.The interface type

[smax013]

JAMES31G said:

What determines the drive letter when installing a second hard drive?

a.The drive manufacturer


b.The end user


c.The operating system


d.The interface type

By default, it is the OS, but you can over ride it...to some degree.



By default, the OS will use the next available drive letter when adding a drive. If the last drive in use is G:, then the new drive will be H:. The OS will NOT use A: or B: for hard drives.



You can, however, change the drive letters if you want. You can do this using Disk Management under Computer Management. It will allow you to assign what ever drive letter that you want...as long as it is not already in use. Thus, if you want your second hard drive to be D: but it was given E: because your optical drive was using D:, then you must first change the optical drive to something else and then you can change the second hard drive to D:.

[Evildave]

For NT/2000/XP/Vista...
Control Panel->Administrative Tools->Computer Management->Disk Management, Right Click on a drive and pick 'Change drive letter or path'. You may have to temporarily un-assign a drive letter on another drive to get the 'right one'. You can also mount a drive into an empty folder you create somewhere else in a directory tree.

You'll need 'Administrator' privileges to do it.

For Win 3.1/95/98/ME you can map drive letters to paths to some degree with 'subst' (you might have to modify autoexec.bat).