- Changing Drive Letters
- Posted by Badbird on December 29th, 2005
I have two physical drives, which have been partitioned into three logical
drives each. When I installed Windows XP the Drives were assigned thus:
Drive 0: C, E, F
Drive 1: D, G, H
I would like to change the drive letters to:
Drive 0: C, D, E
Drive 1: F, G, H
How can I accomplish this, and are there any problems I should be aware of
first? I've installed all my software on 'C' drive, and the only other thing
I've done is to creat a pagefile on one of the other logical drives.
Thank you for the help.
- Posted by Doug Knox MS-MVP on December 29th, 2005
Right click My Computer, select Manage, Disk Management. You can change drive letters there.
--
Doug Knox, MS-MVP Windows Media Center\Windows Powered Smart Display\Security
Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes
http://www.dougknox.com
--------------------------------
Per user Group Policy Restrictions for XP Home and XP Pro
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_securityconsole.htm
--------------------------------
Please reply only to the newsgroup so all may benefit.
Unsolicited e-mail is not answered.
"Badbird" <Badbird@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:E7AC8943-C464-41BD-A180-84FA8D14FFFA@microsoft.com...
>I have two physical drives, which have been partitioned into three logical
> drives each. When I installed Windows XP the Drives were assigned thus:
>
> Drive 0: C, E, F
> Drive 1: D, G, H
>
> I would like to change the drive letters to:
>
> Drive 0: C, D, E
> Drive 1: F, G, H
>
> How can I accomplish this, and are there any problems I should be aware of
> first? I've installed all my software on 'C' drive, and the only other thing
> I've done is to creat a pagefile on one of the other logical drives.
>
> Thank you for the help.
- Posted by David H. Lipman on December 30th, 2005
From: "Badbird" <Badbird@discussions.microsoft.com>
| I have two physical drives, which have been partitioned into three logical
| drives each. When I installed Windows XP the Drives were assigned thus:
|
| Drive 0: C, E, F
| Drive 1: D, G, H
|
| I would like to change the drive letters to:
|
| Drive 0: C, D, E
| Drive 1: F, G, H
|
| How can I accomplish this, and are there any problems I should be aware of
| first? I've installed all my software on 'C' drive, and the only other thing
| I've done is to creat a pagefile on one of the other logical drives.
|
| Thank you for the help.
You can change the Drive Letters but if anthing in the Registry is point to those locations
they will get fouled up.
--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm
- Posted by Badbird on December 30th, 2005
Thanks for the help. Does it matter if I've moved the "My Documents" folder
to another drive before changing the drive letters?
"Doug Knox MS-MVP" wrote:
> Right click My Computer, select Manage, Disk Management. You can change drive letters there.
>
> --
> Doug Knox, MS-MVP Windows Media Center\Windows Powered Smart Display\Security
> Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes
> http://www.dougknox.com
> --------------------------------
> Per user Group Policy Restrictions for XP Home and XP Pro
> http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_securityconsole.htm
> --------------------------------
> Please reply only to the newsgroup so all may benefit.
> Unsolicited e-mail is not answered.
>
> "Badbird" <Badbird@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:E7AC8943-C464-41BD-A180-84FA8D14FFFA@microsoft.com...
> >I have two physical drives, which have been partitioned into three logical
> > drives each. When I installed Windows XP the Drives were assigned thus:
> >
> > Drive 0: C, E, F
> > Drive 1: D, G, H
> >
> > I would like to change the drive letters to:
> >
> > Drive 0: C, D, E
> > Drive 1: F, G, H
> >
> > How can I accomplish this, and are there any problems I should be aware of
> > first? I've installed all my software on 'C' drive, and the only other thing
> > I've done is to creat a pagefile on one of the other logical drives.
> >
> > Thank you for the help.
>
- Posted by David H. Lipman on December 30th, 2005
From: "Badbird" <Badbird@discussions.microsoft.com>
| Thanks for the help. Does it matter if I've moved the "My Documents" folder
| to another drive before changing the drive letters?
|
Yes.
If it was D:\Documents and Settings and now it is E:\Documents and Settings
the Registry will still point to "D:".
--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm
- Posted by Badbird on December 30th, 2005
Drat. I guess I'll need to move it back first. I really don't want to do that
since ther's a hell of a lot of data there to move. Isn't there a way to edit
the registry after changing the drive letters instead of having to move the
files back? Hopefully?
"David H. Lipman" wrote:
> From: "Badbird" <Badbird@discussions.microsoft.com>
>
> | Thanks for the help. Does it matter if I've moved the "My Documents" folder
> | to another drive before changing the drive letters?
> |
>
> Yes.
>
> If it was D:\Documents and Settings and now it is E:\Documents and Settings
> the Registry will still point to "D:".
>
> --
> Dave
> http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
> http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm
>
>
>
- Posted by David H. Lipman on December 30th, 2005
From: "Badbird" <Badbird@discussions.microsoft.com>
| Drat. I guess I'll need to move it back first. I really don't want to do that
| since ther's a hell of a lot of data there to move. Isn't there a way to edit
| the registry after changing the drive letters instead of having to move the
| files back? Hopefully?
|
Yes, by manually changing the Registry entries but that can lead to syntax or other errors.
--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm
