Drive Letter Assignment

[Guest]

Hi all,

I used to have A (diskette), C (boot HD), D (DVDROM) and E/F (virtual
drives); then I installed a DVD writer and another hard drive, then I removed
the virtual drives. The new drives still used G and H skipping E and F.

Is there a way to have windows xp reassign these drives to new letters?

Thanks a lot,
John

 

[Jim Macklin]

Removing the drives in device manager before you add new
hardware allows Windows to detect and assign letters in
sequence. But you can use device manager to manually assign
fixed drive letters to the drives in any way you choose
using each drives properties.


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| Hi all,
|
| I used to have A (diskette), C (boot HD), D (DVDROM) and
E/F (virtual
| drives); then I installed a DVD writer and another hard
drive, then I removed
| the virtual drives. The new drives still used G and H
skipping E and F.
|
| Is there a way to have windows xp reassign these drives to
new letters?
|
| Thanks a lot,
| John

 

[bumtracks]

I don't know what you mean by "E/F (virtual drives)"
Assuming they were partitions that you have removed;
Start your Computer Management and look at Disk Management.
HighLite the drive and Right Click.

If you cant find computer management console from Run
%SystemRoot%\system32\compmgmt.msc /s

 

[Alias]

Hi all,

I used to have A (diskette), C (boot HD), D (DVDROM) and E/F (virtual
drives); then I installed a DVD writer and another hard drive, then I
removed
the virtual drives. The new drives still used G and H skipping E and F.

Is there a way to have windows xp reassign these drives to new letters?

Thanks a lot,
John

Right click on My Computer and select "manage".

Alias

 

[Jon@than]

Hi all,

I used to have A (diskette), C (boot HD), D (DVDROM) and E/F (virtual
drives); then I installed a DVD writer and another hard drive, then I removed
the virtual drives. The new drives still used G and H skipping E and F.

Is there a way to have windows xp reassign these drives to new letters?

Thanks a lot,
John

- Launch "Computer Management": Administrative Tools > Computer
Management (or start > run > compmgmt.msc)

- Click "Disk Management" under "Storage"

- In the right pane, right click a drive letter and select "Change
Drive Letter and Paths," then click the "Change" button.

 

[bumtracks]

I don't know what you mean by "E/F (virtual drives)"

And if they truly were virtual drives,
open a cmd window and type SUBST /?

 

[null]

Huh?

Removing the drives in device manager before you add new
hardware allows Windows to detect and assign letters in
sequence. But you can use device manager to manually assign
fixed drive letters to the drives in any way you choose
using each drives properties.