pointing a drive to another drive

[goldwyn98]

My computer uses drive E: rather than C: as the hard drive. The computer has
no C: drive. Some programs automatically try to download or open to drive c:
without asking, so they fail. Is there a way to get the computer to direct
requests for C: to go to E: instead (such as C:=E?

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

My computer uses drive E: rather than C: as the hard drive. The computer
has
no C: drive. Some programs automatically try to download or open to drive
c:
without asking, so they fail. Is there a way to get the computer to direct
requests for C: to go to E: instead (such as C:=E?

Yes. Place the following lines into the file
E:\documents and Settings\All Users\Start
Menu\Programs\Startup\netlogon.bat:

@echo off
subst C: E:\

 

[David H. Lipman]

From: "Pegasus (MVP)" <[email protected]>


|
| Yes. Place the following lines into the file
| E:\documents and Settings\All Users\Start
| Menu\Programs\Startup\netlogon.bat:
|
| @echo off
| subst C: E:\
|

People forget about the SUBSTitute command.
My favourite use is for the situation when a cluelees LAN users creates super-long file
names in deep subfolders and you get errors accesing the data. The SUBST command allows me
to access the data and flatten the data tree and shorten the file names.

I also use it when copying data when porting users from one system to another.

Example:
subst k: "C:\Documents and Settings\lipman"

 

[windmap]

Use the disk management through MMC to change the drive letter for primary
partition.Third party programs like Acronis disk director and Norton
Partition magic can do the job safely.

 

[David H. Lipman]

From: "windmap" <[email protected]>

| Use the disk management through MMC to change the drive letter for primary
| partition.Third party programs like Acronis disk director and Norton
| Partition magic can do the job safely.

No, this is NOT safe. If the OS loads as "E:" and you change it to "C:" then the drive
might have the letter you want but the Registry would still be pointing at "E:" and the oS
would be completely corrupted.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Use the disk management through MMC to change the drive letter for primary
partition.Third party programs like Acronis disk director and Norton
Partition magic can do the job safely.

Disk Management will NOT let you do this, which is
fortunate, because (as David has already pointed out)
it would cripple this Windows installation.

 

[PD43]

Use the disk management through MMC to change the drive letter for primary
partition.

You're outta yer mind and have no business offering "help" here