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Partitioning

what kind of hard drive is it? do you have your windows cd?
 
glad i came across this topic.

i'm formatting this harddrive for a friend. it's going to be his primary drive. how do i assign it the C: and D: drive labels with out interferring with my own C: and D: drives?
 
letter assignemt is dynamic
If all your doing is formatting it, dont worry about it

if however your doing more than that.....
its gets somewhat more complicated

Definition of System and Boot Partition
Inside the Boot Process Part 1 (NTFS) & Part 2 @ Windows & .NET Magazine
How Windows 2000 Assigns, Reserves, and Stores Drive Letters

BASIC Disk - Drive Letter Assignment Rules

The following are the basic disk drive letter assignment rules for NT W2K XP:

Scan all fixed hard disks as they are enumerated*, assign drive letters starting with any active primary partitions (if there is one), otherwise, scan the first primary partition on each drive. Assign next available letter starting with C:

Repeat scan for all fixed hard disks and removable (JAZ, MO) disks and assign drive letters to all logical drives in an extended partition, or the removable disk(s) as enumerated. Assign next available letter starting with C:.

Finally, repeat scan for all fixed hard disk drives, and assign drive letters to all remaining primary partitions. Assign next available letter starting with C:.

Floppy drives. Assign letter starting with A:

CD-ROM drives. Assign next available letter starting with D:.
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*as enumerated generally means (in a PATA system)

-- Primary Master primary partition
-- Primary Slave primary partition
-- Secondary Master primary partition
-- Secondary Slave primary partition
-- Primary Master extended partition with logical drives
-- Primary Slave extended partition with logical drives
-- Secondary Master extended partition with logical drives
-- Secondary Slave extended partition with logical drives
-- Removable media (CD-ROM) or other software driven devices with drive letters

of course that doesnt address the fact you rare allowed 4 Primary Partitions or 3 Primary Partitions and One Extended Partition with its own logical drives per HDD in Windows
 
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