Fixing Drive Letter allocation

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I recently installed a new motherboard-- same make, slightly upgraded model.

Prior to the upgrade, I had the following drive letter allocation:

Primary Master Hard Disk (40 GB hard drive) - Drive C
Primary Slave Hard Disk (20 GB hard drive) - Drive D
Secondary Master Hard Disk (DVD-ROM) - Drive E
Secondary Slave Hard Disk (CD-RW) - Drive F
ZIP Drive - Drive G

After the upgrade, the allocation is as follows:

Primary master - Drive C
Secondary Slave - Drive D
Secondary Master - Drive E
ZIP Drive - Drive F
Primary Slave - Drive G

The Primary Slave Drive (20 GB Hard drive) was not immediately recognized when I upgraded the motherboard. I might have had it plugged in improperly. When I had Windows detect the drive, it assigned it the last free letter in the queue.

I know there's a utility in either Windows configuration, or in the DOS Shell, that will let me restore the drive letters to their previous allocations, but I forgot where it is and how to access it. If anyone can tell me where it is and how to call it up, I can take it from there. :)

Thanks,

Alan G.
 
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Alan G. said:
I recently installed a new motherboard-- same make, slightly upgraded model.

Prior to the upgrade, I had the following drive letter allocation:

Primary Master Hard Disk (40 GB hard drive) - Drive C
Primary Slave Hard Disk (20 GB hard drive) - Drive D
Secondary Master Hard Disk (DVD-ROM) - Drive E
Secondary Slave Hard Disk (CD-RW) - Drive F
ZIP Drive - Drive G

After the upgrade, the allocation is as follows:

Primary master - Drive C
Secondary Slave - Drive D
Secondary Master - Drive E
ZIP Drive - Drive F
Primary Slave - Drive G

The Primary Slave Drive (20 GB Hard drive) was not immediately recognized
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when I upgraded the motherboard. I might have had it plugged in improperly.
When I had Windows detect the drive, it assigned it the last free letter in
the queue.
I know there's a utility in either Windows configuration, or in the DOS
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Shell, that will let me restore the drive letters to their previous
allocations, but I forgot where it is and how to access it. If anyone can
tell me where it is and how to call it up, I can take it from there. :)
 
Pretty simple. Right click on My Computer and select Manage. Now go down
to Disk Management and right click on each partition/drive and choose
change drive letter. Just change them around until you have what you
want ;)

Nathan McNulty
 
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