Moving installed applications between HD partitions

[HenriK]

Recently, I deleted a small disk HD partition with nothing in it with
Partition Magic on my 3.06 mHz P4, XP-Pro, Dell PC. Now that the
unneeded partition is removed and its space is assigned elsewhere, I am
left with a gap in my drive letter sequence. Accordingly, I don't know
if I have a XP-Pro question or a Partition Magic question.

Is there some feature in XP-Pro (or some other application) that will
allow me to close up the gap in the drive letter sequence without having
to reinstall the applications on the partition(s) that would end up
having their drive letters changed? I feel certain that somebody more
knowledgeable than I am has dealt with such a problem.

Of is this a case where well enough should be left alone? Thanks, in
advance, for advice, comments, or pointers to tutorials on how to
accomplish what I would like to do.

 

[Bill in Co.]

Recently, I deleted a small disk HD partition with nothing in it with
Partition Magic on my 3.06 mHz P4, XP-Pro, Dell PC. Now that the
unneeded partition is removed and its space is assigned elsewhere, I am
left with a gap in my drive letter sequence. Accordingly, I don't know
if I have a XP-Pro question or a Partition Magic question.

Is there some feature in XP-Pro (or some other application) that will
allow me to close up the gap in the drive letter sequence without having
to reinstall the applications on the partition(s) that would end up
having their drive letters changed? I feel certain that somebody more
knowledgeable than I am has dealt with such a problem.

Of is this a case where well enough should be left alone? Thanks, in
advance, for advice, comments, or pointers to tutorials on how to
accomplish what I would like to do.

This may depend on what your partition assignments are now and were before.
Could you be more specific?

Hopefully C: is still the partition being used for your programs and
windows. If not, and THAT part has since changed, this may be difficult to
resolve.

IOW, if you're talking about a later partition assignment (one that came
after C that you removed, this may not be such a major problem with a
third party partition management program like Partition Magic or Easeus
Partition Manager.

 

[LVTravel]

Recently, I deleted a small disk HD partition with nothing in it with
Partition Magic on my 3.06 mHz P4, XP-Pro, Dell PC. Now that the unneeded
partition is removed and its space is assigned elsewhere, I am left with a
gap in my drive letter sequence. Accordingly, I don't know if I have a
XP-Pro question or a Partition Magic question.

Is there some feature in XP-Pro (or some other application) that will
allow me to close up the gap in the drive letter sequence without having
to reinstall the applications on the partition(s) that would end up having
their drive letters changed? I feel certain that somebody more
knowledgeable than I am has dealt with such a problem.

Of is this a case where well enough should be left alone? Thanks, in
advance, for advice, comments, or pointers to tutorials on how to
accomplish what I would like to do.

If you have programs installed onto any of the "gapped" drive letters leave
them alone. In other words, you installed program X onto drive G: and what
would happen if you changed the drive letter for drive G: to drive D:. The
program would no longer run. Why, the computer's operating system's
registry will in all probability have references to the G: drive for that
program and can't easily be changed to drive D:. Leave all alone!

 

[Crios]

Try: Start/ Ctrl Panel/ Perf&Maintenance/ Admin Tools/Comp Manag/ Disk
Managmt/ R click on volume - Change drv letter&paths

Hope this helps

 

[Motort]

If you have programs installed onto any of the "gapped" drive letters
leave them alone. In other words, you installed program X onto drive G:
and what would happen if you changed the drive letter for drive G: to
drive D:. The program would no longer run. Why, the computer's
operating system's registry will in all probability have references to
the G: drive for that program and can't easily be changed to drive D:.
Leave all alone!

I use Partition Magic ver.8. It comes with a handy little ditty
called 'Drive Mapper'. You tell it what the drive letter WAS and what
it IS NOW and it makes all the necessary references within the OS. A
very useful little program in this scenario. Look to see if you have
it on you're PM disk.

 

[HenriK]

This may depend on what your partition assignments are now and were before.
Could you be more specific?

Hopefully C: is still the partition being used for your programs and
windows. If not, and THAT part has since changed, this may be difficult to
resolve.

IOW, if you're talking about a later partition assignment (one that came
after C that you removed, this may not be such a major problem with a
third party partition management program like Partition Magic or Easeus
Partition Manager.

My apologies for not outlining my problem more clearly. The partitions
involved were both in the extended partition. See my other responses
for the other comments received.

 

[HenriK]

I use Partition Magic ver.8. It comes with a handy little ditty called
'Drive Mapper'. You tell it what the drive letter WAS and what it IS NOW
and it makes all the necessary references within the OS. A very useful
little program in this scenario. Look to see if you have it on you're PM
disk.

Aha! Thank you for the pointer. I, too, use Partition Magic, v.8.
They bury the Drive Mapper utility in a way that I had not previously
discovered it. Moreover, it works. Thank you.

 

[HenriK]

Another Aha! moment. I certainly wasn't aware that such a capability
existed within XP's disk management tool. Many thanks.

 

[Motort]

Another Aha! moment. I certainly wasn't aware that such a capability
existed within XP's disk management tool. Many thanks.

A quicker way to get there is to Right click the 'My Computer' icon,
select 'Manage' then Disk Management and you're there.

 

[Twayne]

In

Another Aha! moment. I certainly wasn't aware that such a capability
existed within XP's disk management tool. Many thanks.

It works fairly well, but don't be too dissapointed if there are a few
glitches along the way. Things can and do go screwy sometimes; with a
working installation, there are a LOT of changes to be made and not all are
easily identified.

HTH,

Twayne