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Conference noted::windows95

Title:Microsoft Windows 95 ("Chicago")
Notice:Please read topics 1 to 22 before writing anything
Moderator:EEMELI::BACKSTROM
Created:Sun Nov 13 1994
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:2958
Total number of notes:19968

2955.0. "Drive letters change on reboot" by TUXEDO::WRAY (John Wray, Distributed Processing Engineering) Thu Jun 05 1997 10:06

    I have a Win95 system with two drives on my primary IDE channel, and a
    Syquest EZ135 drive on the secondary channel.  My D: drive has several
    partitions on it.  On a reboot, the drive line-up usually looks like
    this:
    
    C:	(IDE Channel 1, Master)
    D:  (IDE Channel 1, Slave, Primary partition)
    E:  (IDE Channel 2, Syquest)
    F:  (Extended partition on D-drive, first logical drive)
    G:  (Extended partition on D-drive, second logical drive)
    
    However, occasionally I see the following line-up:
    
    C:	(IDE Channel 1, Master)
    D:  (IDE Channel 1, Slave, Primary partition)
    E:  (Extended partition on D-drive, first logical drive)
    F:  (Extended partition on D-drive, second logical drive)
    G:  (IDE Channel 2, Syquest)
    
    Any ideas what might be causing this behavior (and how to cure it)?
    
    John
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2955.1TARKIN::LINBill LinThu Jun 05 1997 10:135
    re: TUXEDO::WRAY
    
    Do you sometimes NOT have a disk in the SyQuest drive?
    
    /Bill
2955.2BULEAN::BANKSAre you correct or happy?Thu Jun 05 1997 10:172
    And/or is it possible that you've formatted one or more of the Syquest
    disks to have primary partitions on them?
2955.3TUXEDO::WRAYJohn Wray, Distributed Processing EngineeringThu Jun 05 1997 10:4321
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>TARKIN::LIN "Bill Lin"                                5 lines   5-JUN-1997 09:13
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>    re: TUXEDO::WRAY
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>    Do you sometimes NOT have a disk in the SyQuest drive?
    
    No, I checked that.  I always keep a cartridge in the drive on reboot.
    
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>Note 2955.2              Drive letters change on reboot                   2 of 2
>BULEAN::BANKS "Are you correct or happy?"             2 lines   5-JUN-1997 09:17
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>    And/or is it possible that you've formatted one or more of the Syquest
>    disks to have primary partitions on them?
    
    I think all my Syquest disks have a single primary partition on them,
    but I'll check that.
    
    John