will it give me another drive letter for the new hd, or will they interact as one with 1 drive letter?
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will it give me another drive letter for the new hd, or will they interact as one with 1 drive letter?
You will Get Another Drive Letter Mate.
It will show up as another drive in 'My Computer'.
You can also partition the drive into several sections and have (for example) D:, E:, F: and G: . Your main drive can also have partitions so that it 'appears' that you have lots of drives.
Btw. This thread should be in 'Hardwareworld'.
Yeah Mostly It Will Use The Next Letter After Ur First Hard Drive..... Eg. 1st Hard Drive Is C: So It Will Make It D: , Unless You Have Other Drives
Note if your c: drive is partitioned already then your new drive will be d: and the previous partition which was d: will become e: and files may no longer work because of this u will have to copy them to the new d: drive and so on it u had more than one partion. No way to change the drive letters a quirk of windows.
But partioning your new drive ie d: will not affect the c: drive providing it wasn't partitioned.
If you got a drive c: most ppl have you will get a drive d:. you can then resize it or add a new drive letter, with powerquest partition magic.
i have 4 hard drives on my comp 80 gigz each :D
Iv got 3 120gb.
you know what i got a 80gb and a small little 5gb :P
i got 2 tens and a six :angry: ...and i highly recommend partition magic..i got in one hell of a state with Ontrack or whatever its called
To change a drive letter:-Quote:
No way to change the drive letters a quirk of windows.
-Run compmgmt.msc
-Disk Management.
This will allow you to 'move' your cdrom drives to allow your hd's to run in chronological order. As you have a new hard drive this won't present any problems.
But making several partitions to a single HDD can cause lack of speed, it is best to actually have several physical HDDs, they a'int expensive anymore, I saw a 20GB for £20 :w00t:.
Much cheaper than they used to be eh? ;)
It might be worth mentioning that when you add a hard drive, your CD drive's letter will definitely change. This could be a problem if you make changes that require you to insert the Windows CD for the changes - the updating program may go looking for the CD drive in the wrong place. It's easily fixed by manually changing the drive letter, but at first you might wonder what's going on.
Having two physical hard drives, each partitioned, gets interesting. Your first partition on your first HD will be C:, of course. D: will be your first partition on the second HD. E: will be the second partition on the first HD with other partitions on that first drive following. Say you have four partitions on the first HD, they will be C:, E:, F:, G:. On the second drive, if you have two partitions, they will be D: and H:. So if you should add a second drive with two partitions, your CD drive will get bumped two letters, from G: (when you had one HD with four partitions) to I:.
Also, changing the number of partitions on the first drive will change the letter of the second partition on the second drive as well as the letter of the CD drive.