How to force drive letters

[Matthew Reed]

I setup an ext2 partition on a hard drive, and changed a few partitions
around. Now, I can't get my drive letters the way I want them. My drives
look like this:

C Drive: |--- Fat32 ---|--- ext2 ---|
D Drive: |--- Fat32 ---|--- Fat32 ---|--- Fat32 ---|--- linux swap ---|
E Drive: |--- Fat32 ---|--- Fat32 ---|

These should have drive letters as follows:

C Drive: |--- C ---|--- ext2 ---|
D Drive: |--- D ---|--- F ---|--- G ---|--- linux swap ---|
E Drive: |--- E ---|--- H ---|

C, D, E work. H works. F gives an error, and G is mapped to my K: drive. If
I boot to Win98 or DOS, all drive letters work as expected. It's only in XP
that I can't get them to work. If I run partition magic, it shows the ext2
partion as F:.

So - how do I get Windows to not see the ext2 partition as my F: drive, and
let me assign F to where I want it? Likewise G:?

 

[_DD]

So - how do I get Windows to not see the ext2 partition as my F: drive, and
let me assign F to where I want it? Likewise G:?

Did you try Disk Management? You can get there via:
R-Click 'My computer' on desktop
Select Manage
The click 'Disk Management' (duh)

R-Click on the displayed graphic for the partition in question and
'Change Drive Letter and Path'

Reboot, just to make sure.

 

[Matthew Reed]

Did you try Disk Management? You can get there via:
R-Click 'My computer' on desktop
Select Manage
The click 'Disk Management' (duh)

R-Click on the displayed graphic for the partition in question and
'Change Drive Letter and Path'

Reboot, just to make sure.

Disk management was my first stop. If I try to assign the letter F: to the
partition, it's not in the list of available drives. In explorer I see F
because Windows maps it to my ext2 partition. In disk management, I can't do
anything with the ext2 partition, not even control the drive letter assigned
to it.

I can see the ext2 partition in explorer, it shows it as Local Disk (F.
The drive that would normally be mapped to F: is mapped to J:, so I can
access it, but not as the drive letter I want it to be.

I'm guessing this is stored in the registry somewhere - can I change it in
the registry?

 

[Uwe Sieber]

Disk management was my first stop. If I try to assign the letter F: to the
partition, it's not in the list of available drives. In explorer I see F
because Windows maps it to my ext2 partition. In disk management, I can't do
anything with the ext2 partition, not even control the drive letter assigned
to it.

Open a command prompt, enter
mountvol F: /d
to delete the drive letter association to you ext2 partition.


Greetings from Germany

Uwe

 

[Matthew Reed]

Open a command prompt, enter
mountvol F: /d
to delete the drive letter association to you ext2 partition.


Greetings from Germany

Uwe

It worked great, thanks!