Re-ordering Drive letter assignments

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How can I re-order the drive letter assignments. I have Win XP w/sp2 and
2HDs and 2CDs and a floppy. When reintalling XP, the drives got re-lettered
so the 2nd HD is after the 1st CD letter. I would like it to be:

C: HD1
D. HD2
E. CD1
F. CD2

How can I do that?

Thank you

 

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Hi,

As long as you are not trying to change the drive letter assigned to the
drive with XP installed on it (which you cannot do), click start/run, type
diskmgmt.msc and click ok. Right-click the drive to change the drive letter.
You cannot change the drive letter to one that is already in use, so you may
have to do a bit of fanagaling to get it the way you want.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
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Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"Computers" <JNorm@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:xda5d.67307$9Y5.43933@fed1read02...
> How can I re-order the drive letter assignments. I have Win XP w/sp2 and
> 2HDs and 2CDs and a floppy. When reintalling XP, the drives got
> re-lettered so the 2nd HD is after the 1st CD letter. I would like it to
> be:
>
> C: HD1
> D. HD2
> E. CD1
> F. CD2
>
> How can I do that?
>
> Thank you
>

 

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Go to Start-Programs-Admin Tools-Computer Management then select disk
management under the storage folder.

This displays all your drives and gives you an option to change the drive
assignments.



"Computers" <JNorm@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:xda5d.67307$9Y5.43933@fed1read02...
> How can I re-order the drive letter assignments. I have Win XP w/sp2 and
> 2HDs and 2CDs and a floppy. When reintalling XP, the drives got
> re-lettered so the 2nd HD is after the 1st CD letter. I would like it to
> be:
>
> C: HD1
> D. HD2
> E. CD1
> F. CD2
>
> How can I do that?
>
> Thank you
>

 

[Guest]

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One more thing - do not change the drive assignment for the disk containing
Windows or you will create a whole series of other issues you do not want to
deal with.


"Lorne" <Lorne_Anderson@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Go to Start-Programs-Admin Tools-Computer Management then select disk
> management under the storage folder.
>
> This displays all your drives and gives you an option to change the drive
> assignments.
>
>
>
> "Computers" <JNorm@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:xda5d.67307$9Y5.43933@fed1read02...
>> How can I re-order the drive letter assignments. I have Win XP w/sp2 and
>> 2HDs and 2CDs and a floppy. When reintalling XP, the drives got
>> re-lettered so the 2nd HD is after the 1st CD letter. I would like it to
>> be:
>>
>> C: HD1
>> D. HD2
>> E. CD1
>> F. CD2
>>
>> How can I do that?
>>
>> Thank you
>>
>
>

 

[Guest]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics (More info?)

This is the typical drive lettering arrangement. You can change the second
hard drive but if it is a separate hard drive rather than a second partition
on your first hard drive then the assignment may revert after some future
reboot. I suggest leaving your assignments as they are. Mine, for example
are C: and G: due to intervening optical drives. Also, depending what is
already installed on the second partition, some programs may not find
customary files.

"Computers" <JNorm@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:xda5d.67307$9Y5.43933@fed1read02...
> How can I re-order the drive letter assignments. I have Win XP w/sp2 and
> 2HDs and 2CDs and a floppy. When reintalling XP, the drives got
> re-lettered so the 2nd HD is after the 1st CD letter. I would like it to
> be:
>
> C: HD1
> D. HD2
> E. CD1
> F. CD2
>
> How can I do that?
>
> Thank you
>