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Name: samifox
Date: September 9, 2007 at 05:31:28 Pacific
OS: Xp
CPU/Ram: 1024
Product: p4
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Hi ,
im using win xp sp2.

i have two phisical hardrives , in the explorer i see the order of the drives in my computer as follow :

Drive C (HardDrive)
Drive D (DVD-ROM)
Drive E (DVD-Burner
Drive F (HardDrive)

i want to reorder it so the second harddrive (F) will become D.

how can i do it?

Thanks
S



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Response Number 1
Name: Walter Mitty
Date: September 9, 2007 at 05:50:53 Pacific
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Response Number 2
Name: XpUser
Date: September 9, 2007 at 05:51:32 Pacific
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Curious - why do you want to do this when everything is working fine?

FYI reorganizing drive letters is one sure way to render your Windows inoperable.

i_Xp/VistaUser


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Response Number 3
Name: samifox
Date: September 9, 2007 at 07:00:24 Pacific
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Curious - why do you want to do this when everything is working fine?

im obsessive when it comes to order. and some of my programms reffer to D:\ in the ghost image.

no way to tweak it with regedit?



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Response Number 4
Name: justcuz (by whitevalley)
Date: September 9, 2007 at 07:07:02 Pacific
Reply:

Google for a program called Letter Assign -- that may help you.


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Response Number 5
Name: aegis
Date: September 9, 2007 at 09:31:28 Pacific
Reply:

Walter Mitty gave you the answer to your question in response #1. Go to Disk Management.

Right click My Computer > select 'Manage' > Storage > Disk Management > right click a drive and select 'change drive letter and paths'.


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Response Number 6
Name: justcuz (by whitevalley)
Date: September 9, 2007 at 10:00:20 Pacific
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I agree, Walter Mitty was correct (and I was not - wrong forum!). Apologies.

O/T side note: The Letter Assigner program was something I used on W98, when adding a Slave drive with 2 partitions, to a Master drive with 3 partitions. That was getting messy!


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Response Number 7
Name: Dan Penny
Date: September 9, 2007 at 11:49:53 Pacific
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Since "D" is already assigned, "rename" that one first to a higher letter, say "R". (This frees up the letter "D".) Then rename the writer to, say "W". Then reassign the "F" drive the letter "D".

This is what I do with systems that contain a (CD/DVD) burner and ROM. "R" for the read only, and "W" for the burner/writer. This makes it easy to distinguish the two while in My Computer or Windows Explorer.

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Response Number 8
Name: Beachcoffee
Date: September 9, 2007 at 23:49:16 Pacific
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yay somebody finally told me how to get to "Disk Management" the easy way! Aegis said "right click 'My Computer' then select Manage". I will try it now. Thanks.
(Previously I went to Help and Searched)

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Response Number 9
Name: Dan Penny
Date: September 10, 2007 at 08:16:45 Pacific
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Start, Run, type in diskmgmt.msc is fairly easy as well.

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