Hard Drive Letters

[Don Roberts]

Is there a way to reassign drive letters in Windows XP?
My seconadary hard drive keeps assigning itself as drive
F:\ (after my 2 CD-ROM drives) and I want to change that
so that it's the D:\ drive. Any help would be greatly
appreciated.

(This is a repost. I was unable to find the original.)

 

[PaulM]

HOW TO: Change Drive Letter Assignments in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;307844

 

[Alex Nichol]

Is there a way to reassign drive letters in Windows XP?
My seconadary hard drive keeps assigning itself as drive
F:\ (after my 2 CD-ROM drives) and I want to change that
so that it's the D:\ drive

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

R-click in a partition (except the one where the system is (C: usually)
or on a CD and you can Change drive letter

 

[Don Roberts]

Thank you so much for your help!!

-----Original Message-----


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

R-click in a partition (except the one where the system is (C: usually)
or on a CD and you can Change drive letter

 

[Brian Waters]

Any Luck? I have the same problem... XP will not allow
the reassignment of the system or bootable volume

-Bri

 

[Alex Nichol]

Any Luck? I have the same problem... XP will not allow
the reassignment of the system or bootable volume

It won't, because the letter is in so many entries in the registry.
There is a method you can use if a system that has been running with one
letter is changed by some event to a different one: that involves just a
change of one registry entry.

Getting a setup come out as on drive F: is often a consequence of having
a Zip drive present at the time of setup. Remedy is to start over,
including deleting the current partition and making a new one, all with
the Zip drive disconnected (not just no cartridge) until setup is
complete, and adding it after.