Hard Drive Letter Change Now Causing Problems

[rkrukowski]

When I originally installed XP my 2 hard drives were set
up as C: (master) D: (slave). I installed XP on my C:
drive. The D: drive is mainly for application backups
and video files. I needed to recover some files on an
old hard drive and swapped my current D: drive with the
old hard drive. Copied my files. And replaced the old
hard drive with the curret.

Now my slave hard drive has the letter F assigned. (I
have a CD and DVD which use to be E: and F: but now are
D: and E. I don't know what caused the drive letter
change but it seems to have effected XP. Some functions
don't work and some give me strange messages.

System Restore does not work. Whenever I try to get to
the System Restore menu I get a message "There is no disk
in the Drive. Please insert a disk into Drive D". My
options are to Cancel, Try Again, or Continue. Try Again
juset repeats the message, Continue generates an error
report to send to Microsoft.

I also get a message on various MS products such
as "CiceroUI WndFrame: Outlook.exe - No Disk. But on
those I can continue and still run the program.

Any ideas on how to correct this problem?

Thanks
Ray

 

[Norm]

Click Start, right click My Computer and pick Manage. Under Storage, select
Disk Management. Right click on the drives you want to change and choose
"change drive letter and paths".

 

[Ray]

That worked just great. I did have to shutdown my PC;
disconnect my CD and DVD drives so that the D letter was
available. I made the change. Shutdown. Reconnected.
And everything is back the way it originally was. Again
thank you for the info and help.

 

[Michael Stevens]

That worked just great. I did have to shutdown my PC;
disconnect my CD and DVD drives so that the D letter was
available. I made the change. Shutdown. Reconnected.
And everything is back the way it originally was. Again
thank you for the info and help.

You didn't really need to shutdown and disconnect the CD and DVD. You could
have assigned letters not in use, changed the drive you wanted change to D
and then reassigned the CD and DVD to the letters now available.

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Michael Stevens MS-MVP XP
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