re: Question about 'Designate Your Own Drive Letters'
Tuesday, August 26, 2003 at 11:58 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Bob B
(2307 messages posted)
Win95, 98, etc assigned drive letters and moved CD letters, etc, but NT, 2000, XP,
etc, don't change drive letters. You can do it through disk management if you want/need
to. I would normally advise assigning them before you put data on them, but it shouldn't
hurt to assign them now.Of course, you will back up any important data first :0
On Tuesday, August 26, 2003 at 10:53 am, Tracy wrote:
>I have a question about Designate
>Your Own Drive Letters:
>
>
>Here's a weird circumstance I need some advice with:
>
>I recently upgraded my motherboard. The new board has a nice feature of an add-in
>USB2.0/smartmedia/CF reader which occupies a 51/4 slot.
>I reinstalled XP to start out fresh, then added a second HD of previously saved
files/data.
> Both of my HD's are partitioned into two (4 partitions total).
>
>Here's the strange part: "A" is floppy, "C" & "D" are actually my second HD (slave),
>"E" & "F" are the media reading slots, & then- finally- "G" (operating system) &
>"H" are the main drives. I thought that Windows always assigned the HD's first?
>
>Anyhow, are there any sort of issues that can arise when you change drive letter
>association? Perhaps with certain programs which may "look" for a specific drive/letter
>in order to run? A way around this if it's so?
>
>Just want to get this clear before I attempt it,
>
>Thanks!
>Tracy
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