Hard Drive ID in XP on boot

[ArthriticGrayMatter]

I have three drives, drive 0 has one primary (ntfs) + 1 extended with 3 fat32 partions. Drive 1 has one primary (fat32) + 1 extended with 7 fat32 partitions. Drive 2 has one primary ntfs partition.

Upon boot Drive 0 part 0 is C:
Drive 1 part 0 is D:
Drive 0 part 1 is E:
etc,
Drive 2 part 0 is Q:

I expected Drive 2 part 0 to be E: with all other drives moved down a letter.

Does anyone know if this is a result of drive 2 being NTFS. Would it be E: if it was Fat32?

Will drive relocator software work with XP?

It would behoove me to have the third drive (drive 2) be established as drive E: with all extended partitions proceeding the primary partitions.

Thanks in advance for any info.

AGM

 

[Jump1ng]

???

You can change the drive letters around with Disk Manager to set it up the way you want it to be.

Either Right click on My Computer - Manage - Disk Managment or on the Start Menu - Administrative Tools - Disk Managment.

You can now change the drive letters to what you want.

As to why its the way it is now it seems to be a bit random. Maybe some one has a good article in the way it allocate drive letters.

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[bcastner]

NTFS has nothing to do with it. The drive order is the result of Plug and Play enumeration, and the XP Mount Manager.

There are "strange" results to be had under XP from the resulting enumeration. For example, XP could have very well made Disk 2 Primary Partition 0 as Drive C:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q825668

XP does not permit changing the drive letters for the boot and system partitions. All other drive letters can be changed in Disk Management as Jump1ng noted.

 

[ArthriticGrayMatter]

Problem solved. Thanks for the quick responses.

AGM