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10-07-2003, 08:05 AM
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Drive lettering question
Hi, I have two hard disks and a CD-ROM. The current drive letterng is c:\ e:\ and d:\ respectively.
How do i make it to c:\ and d:\ for the two hard disks and e:\ for the CD-ROM? Thanks. |
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10-07-2003, 08:13 AM
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In Computer Management > Disk Management, right click on the drive an change drive letter or path. In order to change to a drive letter the letter will have to be free.
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10-07-2003, 08:43 AM
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In other words, change the e drive to f, then change the d to e and then change the f to d.
You can have problems doing this with programs that read from the CD. Some will be expecting the CD to be d. |
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10-07-2003, 01:47 PM
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It's not the drive letter the programs look for really. It's the drive they were installed from. I've installed older programs from a CD drive labeled, say, F. They run fine, but as soon as the drive letter is changed, I have to reinstall. I've also tried this with CD drives labeled D, E, G and H.
Course, you could go into the registry and and make the necessary changes, but that's a pain. I know version 6 of partition magic could do that. I can't seem to find that in the version 8 I have.
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10-07-2003, 02:24 PM
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It's a feature of Partition Magic called Drive Mapper. It's under tools in PM 8
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