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re: Question about 'Designate Your Own Drive Letters' Tuesday, August 26, 2003 at 11:58 am 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 [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Designate Your Own Drive Letters' Thursday, August 28, 2003 at 10:26 am Posted by Tracy (1 messages posted) My main fear is screwing up paths of any installed items so far. I don't have any CD-dependant things loaded yet- does this path confusion apply to hard disc loaded prog's also? I did go into disk management in XP & tried to click-on/change the "G" drive- I got a window saying I cannot change this drive as it's the system drive? In another forum, my answers have included: Using a utility in Partition Magic 8, also to unplug all my stuff, plug them back in in the order I prefer (rebooting between)- which sounds simple enough... Suppose I'll read through Partition Magic first. On Tuesday, August 26, 2003 at 11:58 am, Bob B wrote: >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 > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum