Tip for Windows drive installation

This weekend I'm installing Windows 2000 Professional on my main workstation for the second time in a week due to the same old usual Windows crap, so while I'm waiting for the umpteenth reboot I can enter in one tip that has really been helpful for a long time.

My workstation has three drives split up into five partitions, and when reinstalling it's really easy to get confused as to which partition used to be which drive letter. So many moons ago I adopted the practice of labeling each partition with the name of the computer plus the drive letter normally associated with it. So on my main workstation WIZ, the labels would be "WIZ-C", "WIZ-D", and so on.

These labels are visible not only from explorer, but from the Disk Administrator tool, so it's really easy to reassign the drive letters properly.

I also make it a habit of naming my CD-ROM drives starting with high letters (R:, S:, etc.) so that these drive letters don't get changed when hard drive partitions come and go.

These two tips have saved me a lot of headache over the years.

Posted by Steve at December 14, 2002 08:42 PM | TrackBack