Windows 8 Windows and Drive Letters

Hi

Other then the Windows drive staying C: I don't know of any way to tell them which is which during installation.

I only have 2 drives with 4 partitions plus my 2 DVD drives, so it's not that big an issue for me but I did have to change the drive letters to get the DVD drive at the bottom of the list instead of inserting them as D: and E:.

As far as I've seen it letters partitions on a drive sequentially, i.e. it doesn't skip around when it names them but I don't know that for sure.

It sound to me like you need to make a backup of your OS partition so you don't have to re-install Windows when something goes bad.

If you make a drive image of just the C:\ partition it will restore it just the way it was and leave everything else alone.
This is especially easy if you make the C:\ partition small and install only the basic software and put your program installs on another partition.

Drive names aren't burned in stone with Windows.

If you've ever set up your computer to dual boot you will see that the drive letters are different when you move from on install to the other.

The drive you boot into always seems to stay drive C: which requires changing the old drive C: to something else.

Mike