Changing Drive Letters

[Guest]

I have two physical drives, which have been partitioned into three logical
drives each. When I installed Windows XP the Drives were assigned thus:

Drive 0: C, E, F
Drive 1: D, G, H

I would like to change the drive letters to:

Drive 0: C, D, E
Drive 1: F, G, H

How can I accomplish this, and are there any problems I should be aware of
first? I've installed all my software on 'C' drive, and the only other thing
I've done is to creat a pagefile on one of the other logical drives.

Thank you for the help.

 

[Doug Knox MS-MVP]

Right click My Computer, select Manage, Disk Management. You can change drive letters there.

 

[David H. Lipman]

From: "Badbird" <[email protected]>

| I have two physical drives, which have been partitioned into three logical
| drives each. When I installed Windows XP the Drives were assigned thus:
|
| Drive 0: C, E, F
| Drive 1: D, G, H
|
| I would like to change the drive letters to:
|
| Drive 0: C, D, E
| Drive 1: F, G, H
|
| How can I accomplish this, and are there any problems I should be aware of
| first? I've installed all my software on 'C' drive, and the only other thing
| I've done is to creat a pagefile on one of the other logical drives.
|
| Thank you for the help.

You can change the Drive Letters but if anthing in the Registry is point to those locations
they will get fouled up.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the help. Does it matter if I've moved the "My Documents" folder
to another drive before changing the drive letters?

 

[David H. Lipman]

From: "Badbird" <[email protected]>

| Thanks for the help. Does it matter if I've moved the "My Documents" folder
| to another drive before changing the drive letters?
|

Yes.

If it was D:\Documents and Settings and now it is E:\Documents and Settings
the Registry will still point to "D:".

 

[Guest]

Drat. I guess I'll need to move it back first. I really don't want to do that
since ther's a hell of a lot of data there to move. Isn't there a way to edit
the registry after changing the drive letters instead of having to move the
files back? Hopefully?

 

[David H. Lipman]

From: "Badbird" <[email protected]>

| Drat. I guess I'll need to move it back first. I really don't want to do that
| since ther's a hell of a lot of data there to move. Isn't there a way to edit
| the registry after changing the drive letters instead of having to move the
| files back? Hopefully?
|

Yes, by manually changing the Registry entries but that can lead to syntax or other errors.