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.

Right click My Computer, select Manage, Disk Management. You can change drive letters there.

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"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.

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.

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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.
>

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:".

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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:".
>
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> Dave
> http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
> http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm
>
>
>

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.

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