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Drive letters mixed up
I just installed a second drive in a computer, and that second drive was
originally the primary drive from another computer. Both drives have approx. 4 partitions each, and when Windows picked them up it found the primary partition in the original drive as C:, but made the primary partition of physical drive 2 D:, and all the subsequent partitions on the "second" drive E:, F:, and G:, followed by the partitions on drive 1. Anyway, I think you get the idea. As you can guess, this is causing problems when both shortcuts and software programs try to find things. So, how do I easily swap the drive letters around? Thanks. Sheldon |
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"Sheldon" wrote in message news:Hd7tb.146251$mZ5.999263@attbi_s54... I just installed a second drive in a computer, and that second drive was originally the primary drive from another computer. Both drives have approx. 4 partitions each, and when Windows picked them up it found the primary partition in the original drive as C:, but made the primary partition of physical drive 2 D:, and all the subsequent partitions on the "second" drive E:, F:, and G:, followed by the partitions on drive 1. Anyway, I think you get the idea. As you can guess, this is causing problems when both shortcuts and software programs try to find things. So, how do I easily swap the drive letters around? You don't state which operating system. For WinXP, try this: http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;307844 |
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This is the way the drives are ordered, and in 98 you cannot change them
directly. The primary partitions are given the drive letters first. You must change the new drive to not be a primary drive. Marc Reinig System Solutions "Sheldon" wrote in message news:Hd7tb.146251$mZ5.999263@attbi_s54... I just installed a second drive in a computer, and that second drive was originally the primary drive from another computer. Both drives have approx. 4 partitions each, and when Windows picked them up it found the primary partition in the original drive as C:, but made the primary partition of physical drive 2 D:, and all the subsequent partitions on the "second" drive E:, F:, and G:, followed by the partitions on drive 1. Anyway, I think you get the idea. As you can guess, this is causing problems when both shortcuts and software programs try to find things. So, how do I easily swap the drive letters around? Thanks. Sheldon |
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"Sheldon" wrote in message news:9Eatb.151403$9E1.758890@attbi_s52... You don't state which operating system. Sorry. It's Win 98. Bummer, dude. Win98 doesn't let you change the drive letters on fixed or floppy drives. ZIPs and CDs - no problem. That the logicals on #2 got lettered before the logicals on #1 is a bit of a mystery. Remembering back to the old DOS days (daze?), the main partition of each disk is lettered first starting with the first physical drive. Then, each logical gets lettered. With 2 drives and 4 partitions/logicals on each, I would expect the first drive to be lettered C, E, F, G and the second drive to be lettered D, H, I, J. Invest in a partition manager utility. There are several shareware and commercial products out there. I won't recommend one only because I haven't had to use one since the days of vacuum tubes. |
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If you have XP, you can go into Control Panel, Administrative Tools,
Computer Management, Disk Management and change the respective Drive letters. -- DaveW "Sheldon" wrote in message news:Hd7tb.146251$mZ5.999263@attbi_s54... I just installed a second drive in a computer, and that second drive was originally the primary drive from another computer. Both drives have approx. 4 partitions each, and when Windows picked them up it found the primary partition in the original drive as C:, but made the primary partition of physical drive 2 D:, and all the subsequent partitions on the "second" drive E:, F:, and G:, followed by the partitions on drive 1. Anyway, I think you get the idea. As you can guess, this is causing problems when both shortcuts and software programs try to find things. So, how do I easily swap the drive letters around? Thanks. Sheldon |
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