Why is my SATA drive letter i:?

Just to seperate this from the previous thread, but I noticed when I added
a SATA drive as slave it appears as I: (or i on the drive list.
I was puzzled why this was when I fist saw this,.the only theory I have goes
like
this. I have my boot drive c: and it's recovery partition d: (on a side note
it is odd
perhaps that d: appears before c: when evey you display the partitions on
the drive.
Then I have the DVD drive e: and I have had USB drives on g: and h:
so maybe i: was just the next letter available when I cloned the drive,
however
I am pretty sure I had no USB drives connected when I cloned the drive so
that's
a bit odd to me. It is lilke windows remebers which drives have been
connected
previously.

Anyhow it's probably a bit of a red herring regarding my SATA boot ptoblems.

 

Driver letter usage is recorded in the Registry.

If you use Regedit, there is a key "\DosDevices\C:"
in MountedDevices. And you can see all your drive letters
in there. Now, I've *never* used the letter "O" for
a drive, and in honor of that fact, there is no
"\DosDevices\O:" showing in the list of keys there.

Paul

 

Thanks for that!!

But as you probably already know I have cloned using Acronis and it worked,
my drives are :C and D: as normal!!

Maybe I will try cloning again to the SMART error drive to see what happens?