Query: Program to reassign Drive letters after removing second hard drive?

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Craig

A few years ago I installed a larger hard drive as Primary master and
partitioned it as C,E,F,G.

I kept the old drive as a Slave (handy for backing up data). At the
time the Slave drive assigned it self as the D drive.

Now the old drive has finally failed and my E,F,G partitions have
moved up the ladder to become D,E,F.

Here's my question: is there a program that can update all the
registry and shortcut entries so that they now point to the newly
allocated partitions?

Thanks, Craig
 
Just click the drive and rename it... You are use a Mac, right???
: )


Drive managment in XP, Win 2000 will do this easily. Not sure about
older stuff.
 
Check the powerquest web site. I believe they have
a program that will do this. However, it has been
a while since I've seen it.
 
Craig said:
A few years ago I installed a larger hard drive as Primary master and
partitioned it as C,E,F,G.
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You must have made one primary partition, and created three logical drives
in an extended partition. They became E,F,G, since the slave drive had
a primary partition on it, and became D.
I kept the old drive as a Slave (handy for backing up data). At the
time the Slave drive assigned it self as the D drive.
Click to expand...

This meant it had a single primary partition on it, as it would if
it were used as the boot drive (C:), previously.
Now the old drive has finally failed and my E,F,G partitions have
moved up the ladder to become D,E,F.
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That's because Windows doesn't find another primary partition to call D.
Here's my question: is there a program that can update all the
registry and shortcut entries so that they now point to the newly
allocated partitions?
Click to expand...

Don't know of any. There are programs to re-name drives, so the old
associations still work.

Buy an inexpensive drive, partition it as a single primary partition,
and install it as slave.

It will become "D:" and your programs, etc. will be OK again. You'll
also have a spare drive again!

Virg Wall
 
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