Stubbor Drive Letters

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I have 2 physical hard drives. The first used to contain partitions C:, D:,
E:, F:, G: H:. The CD took the drive letter I:, and the DVD took the drive
letter J: Then the partitions for the second physical hard drive took the
letters, K: thru P:

Later, I merged G: & H: into E: & F on the first physical drive and expected
all the other drive letters to adjust downward. But they didn't, and
nothing I have been able to do has had any affect on changing that.

What I want to do is reinstall my system (XP-home) on to the second physical
drive because it is much larger. But when I go to do that it recognizes K:
as the first partition and asks if I want to install the system there -
which I don't, of course. How can I resolve this problem??

Ted Smith


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