Redirecting program startup

[Carygee]

I recently cloned my old hard drive to a newer, faster HD. Unfortunately,
and no one's fault but my own, the partitions on the old drive C, E and F --
D was CD-ROM -- were mapped to C, D and E -- F is CD-ROM -- on the new HD
resulting in some programs, formerly installed in F:\ProgramFiles\ not being
"seen" on the new HD. (Clicking on the Microsoft Encarta icon, for example,
initiates an installation dialogue box follwed by a warning "Drive "F" is
Full". Sure, under the new setup, it's looking to the CD-ROM)

How can I correct these "mis-addressed" programs. I thought that perhaps a
simple edit/adjustment of the WindowsXP registry might do the trick, but my
first look-see into this was daunting, to say the least.

Any suggestions?

Thanks!

 

[D.Currie]

I recently cloned my old hard drive to a newer, faster HD. Unfortunately,
and no one's fault but my own, the partitions on the old drive C, E and F --
D was CD-ROM -- were mapped to C, D and E -- F is CD-ROM -- on the new HD
resulting in some programs, formerly installed in F:\ProgramFiles\ not being
"seen" on the new HD. (Clicking on the Microsoft Encarta icon, for example,
initiates an installation dialogue box follwed by a warning "Drive "F" is
Full". Sure, under the new setup, it's looking to the CD-ROM)

How can I correct these "mis-addressed" programs. I thought that perhaps a
simple edit/adjustment of the WindowsXP registry might do the trick, but my
first look-see into this was daunting, to say the least.

Any suggestions?

Thanks!

It would be much easier to just change the drive letters to match what you
used to have.

Go to Control Panel, Administrative tools, Computer Management, Disk
Management. If you right-click on the drive on the right side, you'll see an
option on the menu to change the drive letters.

You can't change to a letter that's already in use, but you can change, and
then change back. So, you could change your D drive to Z, then change you E
drive to D, it that was what you wanted.

 

[Carygee]

Cool! Thanks.

It would be much easier to just change the drive letters to match what you
used to have.

Go to Control Panel, Administrative tools, Computer Management, Disk
Management. If you right-click on the drive on the right side, you'll see an
option on the menu to change the drive letters.

You can't change to a letter that's already in use, but you can change, and
then change back. So, you could change your D drive to Z, then change you E
drive to D, it that was what you wanted.