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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: vadar_1 on November 29, 2002, 05:00:44 pm
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How do you swap/change drive letters? Some program swapped by DVD drive letter with one of my hard drives... and its causing alot of problems. I checked the bios setup but that didn't help... ideas?
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My Computer>Properties>Device Manager>Device properties.. in one of those tabs..
lemme find how you do it on NT based systems...
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Its not in the device manager... i checked... and yes this is a WinNT-based system - winXP
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I did it before.. I just cant bloody remember how...
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This works in 98 and ME but I don't know about the others.
1: go to System Properties->Device Manager
2: select appropriate drive
3: go to Properties->Settings
4: change both Start Drive Letter and End Drive Letter to whatever you want it to be
5: restart computer
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nevermind, I got it, its a little different in XP
heres how to do it for future reference:
Computer Management Console:
Storage Primary Tree>
Disk Management
then select the drive, right click, and select change letter
* you need to have a medium for the drive to show up on removable media such as CD-Roms, DVD-Roms, burners, floppies, etc
Heres how NOT to do it:
Use partition Magic... peice of ****
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Look in windows\system32 for a little proggie called Diskmngr... seems to be the easiest way of performing such tasks that I've encountered to date...
And so far, Partiton Magic has been A-1 Supar for me... it's done what I want it to, without any fuss :)
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Yes, Administrative Tools --> Computer Management --> Disk Management is the right way to change drive letters. It's easy as well.
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Originally posted by Mr. Fury
It's easy as well.
Well that goes without saying - after all, if I can do it... :D