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Can I change one of my Hard disk Drive Letter ???

 
 
Anand
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      2nd Feb 2004
Hi

I want to change one of my Hard disk-drive's letter
from G: to R:. While doing so, I am seeing a warning that
programs may stop to function. In my case, All critical
applications have been installed in this G: drive.
Please advice can i go ahead with the rename ? OR Will
this rename cause any problems ?

Thanks
Anand
 
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Dave Patrick
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      2nd Feb 2004
Any applications installed to G:\ will most likely stop functioning.

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"Anand" wrote:
| Hi
|
| I want to change one of my Hard disk-drive's letter
| from G: to R:. While doing so, I am seeing a warning that
| programs may stop to function. In my case, All critical
| applications have been installed in this G: drive.
| Please advice can i go ahead with the rename ? OR Will
| this rename cause any problems ?
|
| Thanks
| Anand


 
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SaltPeter
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      2nd Feb 2004

"Anand" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:823601c3e92f$7496a3f0$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi
>
> I want to change one of my Hard disk-drive's letter
> from G: to R:. While doing so, I am seeing a warning that
> programs may stop to function. In my case, All critical
> applications have been installed in this G: drive.
> Please advice can i go ahead with the rename ? OR Will
> this rename cause any problems ?
>
> Thanks
> Anand


Open regedit and do a search (F3) for "G:". You'll get the picture.


 
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Jim Self
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      2nd Feb 2004
Hi Anand,

I have a few old hard drives I fool around with at times. On one of them
I used Partition Magic to merge two partitions into one just to see what
would happen. It told me there may be some problems in doing so, but
then after giving it the go ahead anyway, it began searching the
registry for keys pointing to the old partition and changing them to
where the info would going to be after the merge.

I wouldn't try this on anything you weren't willing to lose though. You
could always make a fake partition or two to play with, install a
program or two on one of them, then merge or whatever with Partition
Magic and see what happens.


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