CHANGING DRIVE LETTERS

[Guest]

I recently had XP Pro installed on my computer. The drive assignments
somehow changed and I would like to put them back (i.e. Main Hard drive - C,
Backup HD - D, CD-ROM - E, and CD Burner - F). I am told that this can be
accomplished in the Disk Management utility but I can locate it. Can someone
please help. Thank you.

 

[dev]

/Rick/ said:

I recently had XP Pro installed on my computer. The drive assignments
somehow changed and I would like to put them back (i.e. Main Hard drive - C,
Backup HD - D, CD-ROM - E, and CD Burner - F). I am told that this can be
accomplished in the Disk Management utility but I can locate it.

In Windows Explorer, right-click MY COMPUTER|MANAGE|DISK MANAGEMENT (at
the left). There are limitations. See the HELP file.

 

[Guest]

You can't change the system disk letter with Disk
Management. Other disks you can change. If you want to
get your system disk back to C, as far as I know, the
only way is to pull the stuff that got assigned lower and
do a fresh install. Then reattach the other drives.

 

[RobertVA]

Bad Idea.

Use higher drive letters for the CD ROM and CD Burner. If you latter use
devices like external drives or camera/mp3 player memory cards they will
take over the letters following your hard drives and make the drive
letters for the optical drives shift around. One of my neighbors uses R
for his read only drive and W for the burner (Writer).

 

[Alex Nichol]

I recently had XP Pro installed on my computer. The drive assignments
somehow changed and I would like to put them back (i.e. Main Hard drive - C,
Backup HD - D, CD-ROM - E, and CD Burner - F). I am told that this can be
accomplished in the Disk Management utility but I can locate it.

Control Panel - Admin Tools - Computer Management, select Disk
Management and look lower right for the graphic of the drive.

You can r-click any hard drive partition except the one where the system
is (normally C or a CD/DVD drive and Change Drive letter