Reassign Drive Letter

[Stan]

I just did fdisk on my C: drive and not my D:,E drive I
am useing sp pro. When I reformated the drive it was
assigned to G:. Is there any way to reassign this driv as
c, as it is the boot drive and I am having problems with
some programs seeing it as G:
Thank you all in advance.
Stan

 

[Doug Knox MS-MVP]

Short of a format and reinstall, no. Also, disconnect your ZIP disk and any
external USB drives/card readers that you may have hooked up during the
install. Reconnect them after install is complete.

 

[Lester Stiefel]

Short of a format and reinstall, no. Also, disconnect your ZIP disk and any
external USB drives/card readers that you may have hooked up during the
install. Reconnect them after install is complete.

Here's a Tip. In the reformat. at the reinstall, choose
delete this partition (G). Confirm. Then go back to the
setup window a create a partition using the identical
parameters to the old Drive G.

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Lester Stiefel

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[mikey]

pay attention to reboots



- Change Disk Drive Letters

First you must remember that you CANNOT change the letter for the

boot drive if it contains the PAGEFILE.SYS (swap file) and/or HIBERFILE.SYS(hibernate file).

To move pagefile.sys use Control Panel | System | Advanced tab | Settings

under Performance | Advanced tab again | Virtual Memory and CHANGE

button. set the drive you want to move FROM to NO Paging File and click on SET.

set the drive you want to move TO and click SET.

To turn off page file, same as above, but select No Paging file and then clickthe SET button

To disable hiberfile.sys use Control Panel | Power Options Hibernate tab.

THEN REBOOT and Control Panel | Administrative Tools | Computer Management | Disk

Management under Storage, then RIGHT click on the drive letter to change

and select the Change Letter option.

THEN following the first procedure set the PAGEFILE.SYS back to the

drive it was on originally.

XP automatically adjusts the registry for the drive letter changes.



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I just did fdisk on my C: drive and not my D:,E drive I
am useing sp pro. When I reformated the drive it was
assigned to G:. Is there any way to reassign this driv as
c, as it is the boot drive and I am having problems with
some programs seeing it as G:
Thank you all in advance.
Stan