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hard drive letter

Oct 17, 2005 2:20AM PDT

Dell l800r
Windows ME Suse 9.3 Ubuntu 5.0.4
Western Digital 20gb
Seagate 80gb

Install seagate hard drive as slave used fdisk and formatted for single partition

Received drive letter "D" and cr/rw moved to "E"

Did not put any dos programs on "d" instead loaded Ubuntu with 10gb partition

Letter "D" disappeared and cd/rw moved back to "D" fdisk shows 1st drive as windowsME dos parition and Suse plus swap as non dos
Drive 2 or slave shows ubuntu as non dos

All systems booting from grub boot manager

What do I have to do to recovery drive letter "d" or another letter. I want the capability to store dos programs or backup on slave drive

Thanks in advance for the help

Ray

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What OS?
Oct 17, 2005 2:42AM PDT

In Linux I don't have drive letters. Be sure to note what OS you are running. Assigning drive letters in Windows is widely documented (google.com) so I leave that for where it is to be read.

Bob

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What OS
Oct 17, 2005 2:06PM PDT

I reviewed my original thread and unless I cannot read the second line includes all that information.
Why are we encourged to fill out a profile if no one uses the information we provide.

I always google before posting in the forum.Unfortunately for me I don"t know exactly what I am looking for.

Thanks for the help its always appreciated

Ray

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Save yourself some back and forths.
Oct 17, 2005 2:08PM PDT

Post the OS that is under discussion if need be. I will not open everyone's profile to see what they leave out in a posting.

As Linux handles drives in a non-letter fashion, you may want to post in a Windows Forum or tell a bit more.

Bob

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Back and forth
Oct 17, 2005 2:23PM PDT

Well evidently your computer is not picking up all of my original thread

So I will say good night

Ray

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I read...
Oct 17, 2005 9:55PM PDT

"Windows ME Suse 9.3 Ubuntu 5.0.4" but could not tell which OS was booted at the time you wanted to assign drive letters.

Why you didn't answer my question may remain a mystery but I do wish you the best.

Bob

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Bob
Oct 18, 2005 4:22AM PDT

If you will allow me I will try to explain what my objective is:
My current OS is Windows ME on the master drive under drive "C" It is a 20gb drive partitioner at 10+- gb for Windows ME and the other 10 gb for Suse 9.3.
I recently installed a 80gb harddrive as slave and ran fdisk and format from a Windows ME boot disk. I only unsed 1 partition on this drive and it came up as "D" on fdisk status.
After completing the install I installed Ubuntu on the slave drive on a 10gb parition. The "D" drive disappeared and the fdisk/status shows only Ubuntu on the drive and only one parition of 76+- gb.
My objective is to have a "D" dos drive with a 40gb partition and the rest as non dos Parition for Linux distro's
I would like to have Windows programs on the slave drive along with Linux. The "C" drive is now partitioned that way.

Is this possible and could you direct me to a google or something else that would tell me how to accomplish this?

Thanks
Ray

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That's the clue I needed.
Oct 18, 2005 4:32AM PDT

"the fdisk/status shows only Ubuntu on the drive and only one parition of 76+- gb." (under Windows ME or DOS)

It appears your install of Ubunta put itself on that one partition. That version of Linux may have tried hard to make installs "easy" and wiped out your prior work on that drive.

There may be a way to resize that 76 GB partition but no mention of PARTITION MAGIC in your posts and it's rather expensive when you could try removing the 76GB partition and trying to install Ubunta again but watch carefull during the install for options about disk partitioning.

Cheers,

bob

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Not sure if it will read it as D:
Oct 17, 2005 3:18AM PDT

but I am using a program that loads your Linux partitions
on XP. They show up as any other partition, including AVG
scanning them (or trying). I have a short-cut for "HOME"
Linux partition on XP desktop. I can open it and reach over and work with files in universal formats (jpeg,html, etc). While I can go from Linux to XP, I can't write to the files in XP the way I can from XP to Linux. The program (free) is "Ext2IFS_1_10a.exe" chuck

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Partition sizing
Oct 17, 2005 1:09PM PDT

You have have to change the partitions on your slave drive to accomadate a dos partition or buy a partitioning software program that will do it for you as you tell it the number and size of the partitions.

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Now have "D" drive
Oct 19, 2005 9:14PM PDT

I erased partitions on 2nd drive and started over
Set "d" drive partition at 40gb
Install Kubuntu on remaining free space of 2nd drive
All now as I wanted 2nd drive to be partitioned

Thanks for the help Chuckieu,Jw and Bob

Ray