Drive Letters

[Mark Scott]

Currently, I am experiencing problems with my disk setup on my PC. In the
past couple of weeks I have removed an Internal Zip drive and replaced all
my optical drives with matching Sony drives.

I have 6 hard drives - 2 are SATA and are in a RAID0 configuration for
documents, 4 are running off a Promise controller with 2 in a RAID0 for
applications and system and 2 as stand alone drives for video editing and
export.

Because of the complex nature of this system I decided to use multiple
partitions to host different programs, ie I have a partition for Office and
Net, a partition for Video Editing, A partition for games etc etc.

When I changed the drives I found that my drive letters have changed also, I
noticed this on a partition today, I tried loading programs but they were
crashing out because their references had changed. I tried using drive
management to change the letters but each partition is a system drive so
this is not possible.

Short of zapping the entire drive and spending days rebuilding, is there any
way I can resolve this?

Regards

Mark

 

[Jerry]

Sounds lile the replacement of the optical drives led to Windows detecting
'new' hardware and assigning them different drive letters than the old
opticals. But why would that have resulted in the hard drives getting new
drive letters? Don't know.

I would remove the new opticals, reboot into safe mode, open Device Manager
and open View > Show Hidden Devices and delete all references to any and all
optical drives. Reboot and see if Windows will now give you the drive
letters you expect.

 

[Mark Scott]

Tried that but no cigar. I think because I have S-ATA drives and 4
hanging off a PCI card, they are lower in the pecking order.

Oh well..... I was always lead to believe that a system drive would keep its
letter assignments.