IDE Drive Designation
How are the drive values designated when you have something like the following
How would the drive letters be assigned for the following IDE controllers?
My book sort of explains it but I just want clarification
First Controller has a hard drive with:
- Primary Partition (set as active partition)
- Extended Partition (with the following partitions defined)
* Partition One
* Partition Two
* Partition Three
* Partition Four
Secondary Controller has a hard drive with:
- Primary Partition
- Extended Partition (with the following partitions defined)
* Partition One
* Partition Two
* Partition Three
* Partition Four
How would the drive letters be assigned for the following IDE controllers?
My book sort of explains it but I just want clarification
First Controller has a hard drive with:
- Primary Partition (set as active partition)
- Extended Partition (with the following partitions defined)
* Partition One
* Partition Two
* Partition Three
* Partition Four
Secondary Controller has a hard drive with:
- Primary Partition
- Extended Partition (with the following partitions defined)
* Partition One
* Partition Two
* Partition Three
* Partition Four
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istgirl
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New User
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I'm just wondering how the letters for the drives would be dispersed.
For example, I know that the Primary Partition for the first controller is active and therefore is assigned 'C' for its drive name.
Then I think that the primary partition for the secondary controller is assigned 'D'
Then, I believe that the first partition defined in the extended partition from the first controller gets assigned 'E'.
From here I'm not sure how the assignments progress. Do the rest of the partitions from the first controllers extended partition get letters assigned before those of the extended partition on the secondary?
So, would the drive letters be as follows
First Controller has a hard drive with:
(C: ) - Primary Partition (set as active partition)
- Extended Partition for First Controller(with the following partitions defined)
(E: ) * Partition One
(F: )* Partition Two
(G: )* Partition Three
(H: )* Partition Four
Secondary Controller has a hard drive with:
(D: )- Primary Partition
- Extended Partition for Second Controller(with the following partitions defined)
(I: )* Partition One
(J: )* Partition Two
(K: )* Partition Three
(L: )* Partition Four -
Ricka182
Member Posts: 3,359
That sounds right. After it's all done, you can manually change drive letter assignments.i remain, he who remains to be....
