Drive Letters??

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nick

Don't know when this happened, but ... on my wife's
machine, the single Maxstor hard drive with two partitions,
no longer has a C: and a D: drive. Now it has a C: and an E: drive.

What would cause that change??

Then when I attach a second drive, with one partition, it becomes
the D: drive.

This all really plays hob with disk assignments for certain
applications.

chuck
 
Go to Start/Run and type diskmgmt.msc Click OK.

In Disk Management, right click the current E drive and select "Change drive letters and paths". Change the drive letter to D.
 
Hi nick,

Click start/run or hit the WindowsKey+r and type DISKMGMT.MSC in and click
ok. Right click the "E" drive space and you should be able to change it back
to "D".

Note: you cannot change the drives that are designated as either "system" or
"boot", they are locked. In most cases, these are both the "C" drive, but
there are some variations on this.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
 
Rick said:
Hi nick,

Click start/run or hit the WindowsKey+r and type DISKMGMT.MSC in and
click ok. Right click the "E" drive space and you should be able to
change it back to "D".
Click to expand...

Yes thanks. I had figgered that out. I'm really more concerned
with how this might have happened. Is XP Pro SP 2 likely to go
about changing one's drive letters?? Kind of surprising to
find one has a C: and an E: but no D:. Never seen that before.

nick
 
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