Installing a second hard drive
Some weeks ago I attempted to install Linux alongside my Win XP OS. Despite having successfully partitioned the hard drive with Partition Magic, the whole exercise came to a grisly end when I was faced with a complete re-install of XP. I'm not sure exactly what I did wrong, but.......
I am now considering adding a second HDD and installing Red Hat Linux there. I imagine that the physical installation would be reasonably straight forward (or as straightforward as anything else in computing) but I am a little concerned about the allocation of letters to the various drives.
Current system is:
Floppy: A
HDD: C
CD-RW: D
DVD: E
Would the system allocate its own letter or is that something I would have to do? I am prompted to ask because somewhere in the dim and distant past I read that Windows would not recognise certain letters. I think the examples given were F and G.
Can anyone advise, please?
Thanks in anticipation, Gentlemen