I installed a second hard drive into my computer, which already had a partitioned hard drive (drive C: and drive D. Is it possible to make the new hard drive part of partiton D: so the partition on the existing hard drive and the new hard drive is just disk D: ?
(using windows 2000)
If your first drive was split into two partitions you would see C and D there with E or F as the second depending on whether there is more then one cd/dvd drive(rom - burner). You can reassign the drive letter designation to have the second seen as D through the Control Panel with the disk management under Administrative Tools. To understand this better that each partition will have a designated drive letter,
"NOTE: In Windows 2000, all legacy FT-Sets on basic disks record their last used drive letter in a private region on the physical disk. During a new installation, these drive letters are extracted and favored when re-assigning drive letters. This means legacy FT-sets are assigned drive letters prior to assigning any other drive letters to other basic disk partition as stated above.
All assigned drive letters are "persistent" after they are assigned. This means they should remain assigned to that volume until it is either deleted or changed manually using Disk Management. This should hold true for all online volumes as you add and remove disks to the system." http://support.microsoft.com/kb/234048/EN-US/
To simply have the newly added drive seen as D you would have to change not only the designation for a second partition on the first drive but those on one or more optical drives installed. A Serial ATA array is where multiple drives see one drive letter only. To eliminate the third drive letter you have to create only one partition on each of the drives.
. Is it possible to make the new hard drive part of partiton D: so the partition on the existing hard drive and the new hard drive is just disk D: ?