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Changing Local drives
Name: ~BeBe~ Date: May 30, 2004 at 20:02:47 Pacific OS: WinXP CPU/Ram: 3.0/512
Comment:
I formatted my computer now the local drive is a little messed up, I wonder if there is anyway to change it. My 'E:' drive is the one that used to be 'C:' and 'D:' is a cdrom, How can I change them the way i want. Thanks
Name: jefro Date: May 30, 2004 at 20:51:15 Pacific
Reply:
Darn MS still has some issues with drive letters. Two thing go on with a change. One is how the programs were loaded. Did they see the drive as D and now see it as C. There are apps to correct most of that on drive changes. Now to change the drive may or may not be easy. On the run command type diskmgmt.msc and there you can change some of the drive letters. I don't think you can change C that way. You will have to use a program like norton's ghost to save the data and then move it back to a newly made c drive. C will be the first partiton in the ide chain usually.
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Response Number 2
Name: ~BeBe~ Date: May 30, 2004 at 21:17:32 Pacific
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Ya it can't change the C drive. Anything else I can do without formating or ghosting? Thanks
Summary: ok, i know how to change the drive letters with the disk management...that's not the issue... I have 2 HDs (C: and D:). Previously I had winXP running off of my older, slower HD and had a new, bigge...
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