Changing Drive Letters...

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I have the following setup now: C: Vista, D: CD, E: CD RW,F: DVD RW, G: Backup Vista, H: Backup 2, I: Old Stuff

This is what shows up when I look in Computer. The surprising is that I don't have a CD, although I do have everything else. I want to remove the erroneous D: and rename I: to D: -- and Disk Management does not appear to help.

What is the best means of doing this?

Ross
 
Hi Ross,

What do you mean disk manager is no help? Within disk manager you can
remove drive letters from drives and then assign them to other drives - can
you not do this?

Regards,
Jon

www.insidetheregistry.com

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I have the following setup now: C: Vista, D: CD, E: CD RW,F: DVD RW, G:
Backup Vista, H: Backup 2, I: Old Stuff

This is what shows up when I look in Computer. The surprising is that I
don't have a CD, although I do have everything else. I want to remove the
erroneous D: and rename I: to D: -- and Disk Management does not appear to
help.

What is the best means of doing this?

Ross
 
Hi, Ross.
I have the following setup now: C: Vista, D: CD, E: CD RW,F: DVD RAW, G:
Backup Vista, H: Backup 2, I: Old Stuff
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Are these all separate physical devices? How many hard drives do you have,
and how are they partitioned? Do your letters G:, H: and I: refer to
separate devices, or to partitions on your one (or more) hard drive? Are
those labels (Vista, CD, Old, Stuff, etc.) actually written to the physical
drives? "CD" might refer to a partition on your hard drive, rather than to
a separate device.

What does Disk Management say about your "Drive D:"? Does the "CD" label
show up in Disk Management? For which volume?

When you right-click on Drive D: in Disk Management and click Properties,
what does it tell you about that drive?

RC
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R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
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Microsoft Windows MVP
Windows Live Mail 2009 (14.0.8064.0206) in Win7 Ultimate x64 7000
 
I've attached a JPEG of Computer and Disk Management. The CD RW and the DVD RW are separate devices, both physical, the C: drive is a partition on the hard disk as is the I: partition, which was previously called the D. partition. The G. and H. partition are partitions on my external USB hard disk.

I want to get the I: disk back to being the D.: disk.

Disk Management the same doesn't let me rename a partition to one that already exists. How do I insert an space "empty/placeholder" and then re-name I.: to D.: ?
 
tester

I've attached a JPEG of Computer and Disk Management. The CD RW and the DVD RW are separate devices, both physical, the C: drive is a partition on the hard disk as is the I: partition, which was previously called the D. partition. The G. and H. partition are partitions on my external USB hard disk.

I want to get the I: disk back to being the D.: disk.

Disk Management the same doesn't let me rename a partition to one that already exists. How do I insert an space "empty/placeholder" and then re-name I.: to D.: ?
 
I tried that! Disk management does not allow me to get rid of the CD drive....


the drive I am trying to rename to D. is the "was XP" drive

it's driving me nuts!

Ross
 
Success!!

It ends up that my problem was caused by otherwise useful application
installed a long time ago, PowerISO, which creates a virtual CD, and allows
you to even boot/mount an ISO image. I had forgotten that it was even
installed! I removed the application -- temporarily I'm sure -- in would
have been able to manipulate the disks and their monikers easily in disk
management.
Ross
 
Hi, Ross.

Congratulations! And thanks for the report back. ;<)

RC
--
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
(e-mail address removed)
Microsoft Windows MVP
Windows Live Mail 2009 (14.0.8064.0206) in Win7 Ultimate x64 7000
 
Success!!

It ends up that my problem was caused by otherwise useful application
installed a long time ago, PowerISO, which creates a virtual CD, and allows
you to even boot/mount an ISO image. I had forgotten that it was even
installed! I removed the application -- temporarily I'm sure -- in would
have been able to manipulate the disks and their monikers easily in disk
management.
Ross
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Yeah, I have ISO mounting software, and I keep seeing extra non-existent
drives until I remember to disable the software (e.g., in settings, make
number of drives = 0 or = disabled, depending on the program).

I make that error often enough that now I recognize the problem right away.
See, I can learn - sometimes :-)

And thanks for reminding me - I just set Virtual Close Drive to disabled -
so "Drive G: BD-ROM" Drive is now gone from Explorer.
 
Yeah, I have ISO mounting software, and I keep seeing extra non-existent
drives until I remember to disable the software (e.g., in settings, make
number of drives = 0 or = disabled, depending on the program).

I make that error often enough that now I recognize the problem right
away.
See, I can learn - sometimes :-)

And thanks for reminding me - I just set Virtual Close Drive to disabled -
so "Drive G: BD-ROM" Drive is now gone from Explorer.
Click to expand...

It was embarrassing, to say the least!

Now to try to figure out why I cannot post JPEG's using Windows mail...

Ross
 
Yeah, I have ISO mounting software, and I keep seeing extra non-existent
drives until I remember to disable the software (e.g., in settings, make
number of drives = 0 or = disabled, depending on the program).

I make that error often enough that now I recognize the problem right away.
See, I can learn - sometimes :-)

And thanks for reminding me - I just set Virtual Close Drive to disabled -
so "Drive G: BD-ROM" Drive is now gone from Explorer.
Click to expand...

Virtual CLONE Drive.
 
It was embarrassing, to say the least!

Now to try to figure out why I cannot post JPEG's using Windows mail...

Ross
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No, just be amused!

As for the binary files, I have no real ideas. Are you trying to post JPEGs
on a binary group, or not? Maybe Windows Mail doesn't like attachments on
news postings, at least on non-binary groups.
 
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