Change Drive Letter

[Guest]

Hello,

I have 2 external drives.
They were named "F" and "G".
Somehow, the drive letters have changed.
I tried going to the drive, right click to bring up list and use it to
"RENAME" the drives.
All that occured was it added the change to what was already there.

I have tired going through the instructions for changing a drive letter
(Procedure that led to Disk managemanet).
It was scarey to read that it could cause a partition change and loss of data.

I tried it, but it did not work.
The same drive letters (2 for each drive now) appear.

Does anyone have any tips on what I could try / use ??

Thanks for your review.

 

[Guest]

Hi,

Did you try rebooting? I had this happen when I changed the drive letters
on my DVD and CDW drives. One of them had a disc in it and XP showed two
drive letters for that drive. It cleared up when I rebooted.

Changing the drive letters should be pretty safe. For your case, you
probably don't need to worry about mapping drive letters in the registry and
other places. If you ever need to do that, PartitionMagic includes a
DriveMapper utility that makes this easy.

HTH,
Dennis

 

[Poprivet]

Hello,

I have 2 external drives.
They were named "F" and "G".
Somehow, the drive letters have changed.
I tried going to the drive, right click to bring up list and use it to
"RENAME" the drives.
All that occured was it added the change to what was already there.

I have tired going through the instructions for changing a drive
letter (Procedure that led to Disk managemanet).
It was scarey to read that it could cause a partition change and loss
of data.

I tried it, but it did not work.
The same drive letters (2 for each drive now) appear.

Does anyone have any tips on what I could try / use ??

Thanks for your review.

Disk Management is the right tool for that. Where did you read that it
could cause a partition change? Something sounds out of context there,
especially if all you're doing is changing drive letters. I've done it
many, many times on many machines.

HTH
Pop`

 

[Guest]

dlouie ...
Thanks for responding.
Yes I have tried restarting a few times hoping things would "fix" themselves
... however, no luck

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Hey Pop
I have gone to so many sources and KB postings I'm not sure where it was.
However, it was also info about "assigning a drive letter", and it also had
the statement.

Poprivet, could you give me instructions on how you have done it
successfully ?

 

[Guest]

Hello Pop ...

I was hoping you would check back in and instruct me on the procedure you
have used that works many times, but I never heard back from you. I thought
you had abdandoned the site as well.
It looked as though the Post wasn't going to have any further action on it,
so I thought it was too simplistic for anyone to pick out.
I didn't really see where the problems had been answered, just stating the
ability that it really was possible to do so .. and the numerous times it had
been done.
I had assumed that since you had not checked back in, was that you 1) didn't
really care to, or 2) didn't really know how to