Changing Drive Letters

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I have two physical drives, which have been partitioned into three logical
drives each. When I installed Windows XP the Drives were assigned thus:

Drive 0: C, E, F
Drive 1: D, G, H

I would like to change the drive letters to:

Drive 0: C, D, E
Drive 1: F, G, H

How can I accomplish this, and are there any problems I should be aware of
first? I've installed all my software on 'C' drive, and the only other thing
I've done is to creat a pagefile on one of the other logical drives.

Thank you for the help.
 
Right click My Computer, select Manage, Disk Management. You can change drive letters there.
 
From: "Badbird" <[email protected]>

| I have two physical drives, which have been partitioned into three logical
| drives each. When I installed Windows XP the Drives were assigned thus:
|
| Drive 0: C, E, F
| Drive 1: D, G, H
|
| I would like to change the drive letters to:
|
| Drive 0: C, D, E
| Drive 1: F, G, H
|
| How can I accomplish this, and are there any problems I should be aware of
| first? I've installed all my software on 'C' drive, and the only other thing
| I've done is to creat a pagefile on one of the other logical drives.
|
| Thank you for the help.

You can change the Drive Letters but if anthing in the Registry is point to those locations
they will get fouled up.
 
Thanks for the help. Does it matter if I've moved the "My Documents" folder
to another drive before changing the drive letters?
 
From: "Badbird" <[email protected]>

| Thanks for the help. Does it matter if I've moved the "My Documents" folder
| to another drive before changing the drive letters?
|

Yes.

If it was D:\Documents and Settings and now it is E:\Documents and Settings
the Registry will still point to "D:".
 
Drat. I guess I'll need to move it back first. I really don't want to do that
since ther's a hell of a lot of data there to move. Isn't there a way to edit
the registry after changing the drive letters instead of having to move the
files back? Hopefully?
 
From: "Badbird" <[email protected]>

| Drat. I guess I'll need to move it back first. I really don't want to do that
| since ther's a hell of a lot of data there to move. Isn't there a way to edit
| the registry after changing the drive letters instead of having to move the
| files back? Hopefully?
|

Yes, by manually changing the Registry entries but that can lead to syntax or other errors.
 
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