On 19-Nov-08 11:55:48, Brett Parker wrote:
On 19 Nov 11:30, Ted Harding wrote:
[snip] . Solving it was a close approximation to a nightmare.
[see OOPS below!!]
There was a downloadable utility called "Letter Assigner" which allowed you to give a partition a letter-name which was not already in use. So putting right the above mangled situation involved:
1: C G H 2: D E F --> C I E F G H --> C I E F D H --> C I J F D H --> C I J F D E --> C I J K D E --> C F J K D E --> C F G K D E <--- OOPS!! I left out a line (just goes to show...) --> C F G H D E <--- Hoi! You cheated! This changes 2 drives letters
at the same time!1: C D E 2: F G H
i.e. like the old "15 puzzle" where 15 numbered tiles on a 4x4 board have to be shuffled (using the one available empty square) until they are in numerical order. Any offers for a quicker solution to the drive-letter puzzle above? !!!
That being said, note that it is described in terms of 2 hard drives which both have Windows partitions. I don't know what the situation is if the second drive has Linux partitions: will these also occupy "letter space"?
Depends on if windows decides it can see it or not! Sometimes it does, most of the time it goes "meh, I have no idea what the hell that is" and leaves it alone.
That's what I suspect (never having had the experience); but that re-instates the "suck it and see" scenario! Ted
Cheers,
Brett Parker
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