drive letters

[Bill Stewart]

Hello all ...

I would like to restore the original drive letter assignments on my XP Home
computer but don't see any way to tell XP to go assign them itself again. I
have been having a great deal of hard drive trouble and have been taking
them in and out while duping what I can and so on, and now end up with C:,
D: and G: hard drives with E: and F: DVD drives. Obviously I'd prefer C:,
D: and E: hard drives, but when I changed the drive letters to do that some
things stopped working.

Removing D: did not shift the G: drive into it's place. It still shows as
G: I also tried removing the DVD drive letters and rebooting and the drives
simply weren't there until I assigned them again.

I might add that C: and D: are on the standard IDE controller on the
motherboard, as are E: and F: DVD drives, and the G: hard drive is on the
RAID controller acting as a simple IDE controller. Swapping the drives
around does NOT change the drive assignments.

I've also noticed that my C: boot drive on FAT32 shows as Drive 1, while the
D: secondary drive on NTFS shows as Drive 0 in Disk manager. What's with
that ???

THANKS,
Bill Stewart
Cape Coral, FL

 

[Bill Stewart]

Thank you, but that's what go me into this mess in the first place. I would
like to have XP assign them again without reference to my re-assigning them,
if you catch my drift.

Bill

 

[Striker]

You can change drive letters by going into Administrative Tools and
to Computer Management then to Disk Management. Right click on the drive and
click on "Change drive letter or paths".