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Because MS-DOS does not recognize the NTFS partition, it marks the partition as | Because MS-DOS does not recognize the NTFS partition, it marks the partition as "unknown" and does not assign it a drive letter.<br /> | ||
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NOTE: In Disk Administrator, you can customize the drive letter assignments by choosing Drive Letter from the Partition menu. | NOTE: In Disk Administrator, you can customize the drive letter assignments by choosing Drive Letter from the Partition menu. |
Latest revision as of 09:20, 20 July 2020
Article ID: 101703
Article Last Modified on 11/1/2006
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Windows NT Advanced Server 3.1
- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 3.1
- Microsoft Windows NT Advanced Server 3.1
This article was previously published under Q101703
SUMMARY
Windows NT attempts to assign drive letters to partitions in the same manner that MS-DOS does. However, there are cases in which drive letter assignments are not the same.
MORE INFORMATION
Consider the following example in which a system has two hard disks, each of which has two partitions:
Windows NT assigns drive letters as follows:
-------------------- | C: FAT | E: NTFS | -------------------- -------------------- | D: FAT | F: FAT | --------------------
However, MS-DOS assigns drive letters as follows:
-------------------- | C: FAT | Unknown | -------------------- -------------------- | D: FAT | E: FAT | --------------------
Because MS-DOS does not recognize the NTFS partition, it marks the partition as "unknown" and does not assign it a drive letter.
NOTE: In Disk Administrator, you can customize the drive letter assignments by choosing Drive Letter from the Partition menu.
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