Hi,

I have a PC with HDD (C: ) and CDROM (D: ). Problem is I need a second partition on the HDD to be D: (the CDROM can be anything it wants). What's the best/easiest way to do with without resorting to other software? I was thinking about using the subst command to give me a virtual drive, but not sure if this would allow me to use D: if the CDROM is already assigned to it.

I'm looking at FDISK as well, but not really familier with it...

Cheers

 

Right Click My Computer, - Manage

Go to logical disk manager. right click on cd drive and say change drive letter / path...

Change that to be E: create partition in spare space etc.. or change drive letter of existing one.

 

Thanks

I assume this will then be retained when the PC is rebooted?

 

yep.

 

Thanks mate.

Only problem now is to get the Win2000 PC to run the Autoexec.bat file on startup so that it can run the SUBST command to create the new D: drive. Tried it and it didn't work..

 

no-one uses subst any more mate..... there are other ways now...

as dave said in disk manager you'll see the c: and hopefully some grey stuff to the side - thats the spare space to turn into new D:, right click on that and create the partition, then format it. If youve used up all the drive space making it all c: then you'll either have to divide it up (using 3rd party software like partition magic - but it may not work ...) or add a new HDD.....

 

Also, Autoexec in windows 2k..

Dont think your dos commands work with these 32bit OS's

David