That can be changed with a registry hack or perhaps just
TweakUI or using the browse command.
"Paul" <
[email protected]>
wrote in message | My point I was trying to convey still remains. If he has
loaded programs from
| the CD drive and it was called D: drive, then the program
will always go back to
| D: drive looking for data because this is where the
installation path points to.
| Since he now has manually made the CD drive E: drive and
the second hard drive
| D: drive, the programs will not be able to locate the data
from the CD. It is
| immaterial that the second drive contains only data that
he is looking for and
| he won't be booting from it.
|
| The only way that he will not be troubled is that no
applications were ever
| loaded prior to the drive letter change. His OS
installation will still go back
| to the D: drive though if it ever needs to retrieve data
from the XP
| installation disk.
|
| Paul
|
| "Jim Macklin" <
[email protected]>
wrote in message
| | > His second drive is not his boot drive and all his apps
| > should be pointing to the boot drive. He is just
looking
| > for data on the second drive.
| >
| >
| > "Paul" <
[email protected]>
| > wrote in message
| > | The one problem with reassigning the drive letters is
that
| > any application you
| > | installed up to this point that will try and look at
the
| > CD drive for data will
| > | now be pointing to the second hard drive. I think
that is
| > why NT/2000/XP keep
| > | the CD drive letter the same whereas Win9x keeps
moving
| > the CD drive to the last
| > | possible letter (unless you forced it to stay on a
letter
| > manually).
| > |
| > | Paul
| > |
| > | "Jim Macklin" <
[email protected]>
| > wrote in message
| > | | > | > Yes, rename drive D:. the CD-RW F:, then name the
second
| > | > hard drive D:, rename the CD-RW again if you
want...If
| > you
| > | > plan on partitioning your hard drives, name the
CD-RW L:
| > to
| > | > allow a fixed letter name assignment.
| > | >
| > | > Right click on MY Computer and select manage.
| > | >
| > | >
message
| > | > | > | > | Hi folks,
| > | > |
| > | > | When picking up my new computer (with XP), I gave
the
| > | > vendor my backup
| > | > | drive to install so I could transfer my data
files.
| > | > |
| > | > | Now the drive designations are:
| > | > |
| > | > | CDRW -
drive D
| > | > | backup hard
| > drive -
| > | > drive E.
| > | > |
| > | > | Is it possible to change these these around so my
| > second
| > | > hard drive
| > | > | becomes D and my CDRW becomes E?
| > | > |
| > | > | Thanks, Gary
| > | > |
| > | > |
| > | > | Please remove XXX in email address if email reply
is
| > | > desired.
| > | >
| > | >
| > |
| > |
| >
| >
|
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