How do I change order of drives?

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Guest

I am a complete novice so no long and complicated terms please! I think I
need to change the order of my drives as everything is being installed in my
E drive as well as my C drive and it is just absolutely full so that my
Norton is unable to install upgrades and I can't even download any photos off
my digital camera! An idiot proof step by step guide would be much
appreciated! - I'm on XP.

As I can see, you need to change your CD and DVD drive to be the last in
order.
Whit this I mean you have to setup with "eks. driveimage" that you will have
the HDD`s as nr. 1 and 2, and the optical drives "CD and DVD" as nr. 3 and 4.
In order to set the optical drives, you have to decide, which of the 2 drive
you use to instal from.
Normal is to set the drive as last in nr. " eks. Z " and then HDD C as 1 ..
 
G

Guest

Try admin tools, computer management, disk management, left click on the
drive to change it's lettering
 
D

Dave Patrick

You can reassign non-system, non-boot partition drive letters in Disk
Management
Start|Run|diskmgmt.msc

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G

Guest

"Windows cannot modify the drive letter of your
system volume or boot volume" - what on earth is that supposed to mean?
How do I get past this message?
Jenni

Dave Patrick said:
You can reassign non-system, non-boot partition drive letters in Disk
Management
Start|Run|diskmgmt.msc

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
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Thicko said:
I am a complete novice so no long and complicated terms please! I think I
need to change the order of my drives as everything is being installed in
my
E drive as well as my C drive and it is just absolutely full so that my
Norton is unable to install upgrades and I can't even download any photos
off
my digital camera! An idiot proof step by step guide would be much
appreciated! - I'm on XP.

As I can see, you need to change your CD and DVD drive to be the last in
order.
Whit this I mean you have to setup with "eks. driveimage" that you will
have
the HDD`s as nr. 1 and 2, and the optical drives "CD and DVD" as nr. 3 and
4.
In order to set the optical drives, you have to decide, which of the 2
drive
you use to instal from.
Normal is to set the drive as last in nr. " eks. Z " and then HDD C as 1
..
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
D

Dave Patrick

You cannot reassign system or boot partition drive letters. You'll need to
reinstall the operating system to do so. Most programs will default to
installing to %programfiles% but you should almost always have the choice to
change this during the application installation.

From a command prompt;

echo %programfiles%

to see what it resolves to.



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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect
 
A

Ayush

- You cannot change the drive letter of windows partition.
When you are changing drive letters, right click on D Drive > Change drive
letters and paths > Change button > Choose Z
Then right click on your E drive > Change drive letters and paths > Change
button > Choose D

- Click Start > Run
Type "%programfiles%" (with quotes) > Now what is the path in address bar
 
G

Guest

I managed to change the D drive to Z but it won't let me change the E drive
letter

Ayush said:
- You cannot change the drive letter of windows partition.
When you are changing drive letters, right click on D Drive > Change drive
letters and paths > Change button > Choose Z
Then right click on your E drive > Change drive letters and paths > Change
button > Choose D

- Click Start > Run
Type "%programfiles%" (with quotes) > Now what is the path in address bar


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Replid to [Thicko]s message :
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What is a command prompt?
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Anna

Jenni:
For one reason or another - why this happened need not concern us at the
moment - it appears that your boot (system) drive has been designated as the
E: drive while you also have a C: drive.

We'll go on from here if you want, but before we do would you do this?

Access Disk Managment again (I think you know how but just to repeat)...
Click on Start > right-click My Computer > Manage > Computer Management >
Disk Management

In Disk Management - does it show that you have two drives, a C: & an E:?
And in the schematic does it show for the E: drive "Healthy (System)"?

If it does, this indicates that your E: drive is your boot drive. Many
applications detect your boot drive and tend to want to install themselves
to that drive. But in most cases you have the opportunity to install the
program to another drive.

I understand that your problem is that your C: drive is filling up but that
you have plenty of empty disk space on your E: drive so that you want to
change the drive from E: to C: because you're experiencing problems re the
installation of programs.

As Dave Patrick informed you, the system will not allow this.

Could you do this?
1. Copy your user-created data - your documents, your photos & videos, your
music files, etc - all the files you've created - to CDs or DVDs, maybe to a
USB external hard drive if you have one, maybe to another internal hard
drive if you have that. In other words copy all the data you need to some
other media for backup purposes.
2 Then make a fresh install with your XP installation CD - creating a
single partition which would become your C: drive. So that all the previous
data on that hard drive - your former C: & E: partitions - would be *gone*.
And if you do a fresh install of the XP operating system you'll make sure no
other drives - internal or external - are connected in or to your machine
before undertaking the XP install, OK?
3. So now you would have a fresh operating system installed on your machine
and you would need to install all the programs that you want on your hard
drive. And you would install all the data you previously backed up in step
1. I would hope you would have all the program installation CDs or the setup
file(s) for the programs you want to install.
4. So the upshot of all this would be that you would have a single partition
(the C:drive) that would include all the disk space of your hard drive
which would contain all your programs and data that you created. You need
not (nor would I recommend) creating any additional partitions on that
drive.

Is the above practical? Although it may be possible to live with your
present configuration, I fear that you're going to experience continuing
problems with that present configuration of your system. If it's at all
possible that you could make a "fresh start" that would be the way to go in
my opinion.
Anna
 
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Anna

Thicko said:
What is a command prompt?
Click to expand...
I managed to change the D drive to Z but it won't let me change the E
drive
Click to expand...
letter


Jenni - PLEASE...
Forget about "command prompts".
Forget about changing your D drive to Z.

All these things are useless endeavors. They're just confusing this issue
(problem) confronting you.

I sent a posting recommending a course of action for you. I tried to make
things as simple as possible and practical under the present circumstances.
Please read it and see if it's of any help or value to you. It's possible
what I suggested may not be practical for you for one reason or another, but
do go over it, OK?
Anna
 
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Ayush

Replid to [Anna]s message :
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Jenni:
For one reason or another - why this happened need not concern us at
the moment - it appears that your boot (system) drive has been
designated as the E: drive while you also have a C: drive.

We'll go on from here if you want, but before we do would you do this?

Access Disk Managment again (I think you know how but just to
repeat)... Click on Start > right-click My Computer > Manage >
Computer Management > Disk Management

In Disk Management - does it show that you have two drives, a C: & an
E:? And in the schematic does it show for the E: drive "Healthy
(System)"?
If it does, this indicates that your E: drive is your boot drive. Many
applications detect your boot drive and tend to want to install
themselves to that drive. But in most cases you have the opportunity
to install the program to another drive.

I understand that your problem is that your C: drive is filling up
but that you have plenty of empty disk space on your E: drive so that
you want to change the drive from E: to C: because you're
experiencing problems re the installation of programs.
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I think you are right about that windows is installed on E but you are not
understanding what he/she wants. See his/her previous post named :
Subject : Why does software saves to C and E drives?E drive is too small!HEL
Body :
Can anyone please help me with this really annoying problem! When I try to
load new software from a C ROM it automatically tries to load it onto the E
drive so I manually change the directory route (I think its called) to the C
drive. But after it has all loaded etc then I find that it has saved on both
drives and if I try to delete it off the E dive (which is now completely
full!) then I lose it totally off the machine. My C drive has plenty of
space on it - I've only filled about 1/5 of it. Any help would be very much
appreciated - thanks.


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G

Guest

Anna,
I found you post - you are a true goddess!!!!!!!!!
THank you everyone for trying to help me - am all sorted now - YIPPEEEEEEE!!!
Jenni x x x x x
 

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