drive letters

[Shab]

I rebuilt my system, now my 2nd hd is drive C&D,
cd's are E&F, main hard drive is G&H
is there a way to put them back in order?
XP is on G
please tell me where i screwed up
TIA

 

[Michal Kawecki]

I rebuilt my system, now my 2nd hd is drive C&D,
cd's are E&F, main hard drive is G&H
is there a way to put them back in order?
XP is on G
please tell me where i screwed up
TIA

Clear a disk signature from these disks. With BootIt
http://www.terabyteunlimited.com (Partition Work==>View MBR==>Clear sig)
or simply with fdisk /mbr. And carefully read this text about Win2k/XP
issues: http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/help.html#winnt

 

[Alex Nichol]

I rebuilt my system, now my 2nd hd is drive C&D,
cd's are E&F, main hard drive is G&H
is there a way to put them back in order?

You can't change the letter of the partition that XP is on, or the one
where the initial boot starts (normally C . Other than those, Control
Panel - Admin Tools - Computer Management, select Disk Management and
look lower right for the graphic of the drive.

R-click a partition or CD drive icon, take 'Change drive letter

 

[Michal Kawecki]

Shab wrote:

You can't change the letter of the partition that XP is on, or the one
where the initial boot starts (normally C . Other than those,

Nope, it's easy.

"HOW TO: Change the System/Boot Drive Letter in Windows"
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;223188&Product=win2000

 

[Andy]

I rebuilt my system, now my 2nd hd is drive C&D,
cd's are E&F, main hard drive is G&H
is there a way to put them back in order?
XP is on G
please tell me where i screwed up

Okay, since you haven't provided any clues as to how you rebuilt the
system, I'm guessing you:
1. a. replaced the old master drive with a new one, or
b. deleted all partitions on the existing master drive
2. booted from the Windows XP CD; at this point, the XP
installation program assigned to the existing two partitions
on the second drive drive letters C: and D:, and the CD's E: and F:
3. created one(G, and possibly another(H, partition on the master
drive, and selected the first partition on which to install XP.

If the foregoing scenario is true, you screwed up by not aborting the
installation program after creating the two partitions on the master
drive. Restarting the XP installation program allows it to assign
drive letters C: and D: to the then existing partitions on the master
drive.

 

[Alex Nichol]

Nope, it's easy.

"HOW TO: Change the System/Boot Drive Letter in Windows"
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;223188&Product=win2000

And you are liable to have the system fall flat on its face because the
present drive letter is pervasive in the registry. Unless you are
willing to do an edit to change hundreds of possible references, leave
it alone.

that mechanism is useful if a system originally installed using one
letter has somehow picked up a different one (eg in removing a dual boot
and booting direct) but *only* as a means of restoring the original one

 

[Michal Kawecki]

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;223188&Product=win2000

And you are liable to have the system fall flat on its face because
the present drive letter is pervasive in the registry. Unless you are
willing to do an edit to change hundreds of possible references, leave
it alone.

Of course, you have right. This method will be not very useful if he
want change a _working_ system boot partition letter. In any other case
it can be very useful...

that mechanism is useful if a system originally installed using one
letter has somehow picked up a different one (eg in removing a dual
boot and booting direct) but *only* as a means of restoring the
original one

Yes. And (probably) exactly this is what happened to author of this
thread.

regards,