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Topic: Windows techie question
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Yardstick
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posted 10-03- 04:15 PM
   
Does anyone know if it's possible to re-assign a hard drive letter in Windows as you can a CD drive letter. I have just added a second HD to my system (previously I had a single drive partitioned into C,D). Win '98 has reassigned drive D to E and given the new single partition drive the letter D. This means that my shortcuts need to be edited through properties (no small task when you have 40 plus) and more importantly some of the programs are not going to un-install correctly now that the drive letter has changed.Any help would be much appreciated. ------------------
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ArgonV
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posted 10-03- 04:21 PM
What ever drive has your main operating system on it is going to be drive C. (The main drive) Also, which ever drive is first (In terms of what IDE port its on and if its master or slave) will be drive C. (The main drive) If you want to copy over your drive onto another drive, I believe Western Digital has a partitioning program that you run in DOS that does a direct copy. I used it to copy over my operating system on my old drive to a new one with no problems.P.S. Where is your drive C? All I read was D and E
I have drives A-F. A and B being my two floppy drives, C and D being my two hardrives and E and F being my two CD-ROM drives. [This message has been edited by ArgonV (edited 10-03-2000).] IP: Logged |
Pachy
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posted 10-03- 04:23 PM
Sucks not to be running SDOE under Linux eh?  Drive letter are one of the worst ideas of MS-DOS, and Micro$~1 apparently cannot get rid of them. At last under NT, which as an almost decent system, you can reassign drive letters, but under 95/98... you only get what you deserve for using this.IP: Logged |
Yardstick
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posted 10-03- 05:29 PM
Pachy, I suspected as much  It's a pain but I suppose I will have to live with Windows asigning C,E to my main drive (30gig IBM ATA 100 with 2 partitions) and D to my archive drive (Maxtor 10gig ATA 66 - single partition). ------------------
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ReaperMan
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posted 10-03- 05:50 PM
Yard,
If you get a program like System Mechanic (functional trial version can be downloaded at www.iolo.com) you can search your drive for "missing links" and if it finds one that points to the wrong drive, it'll fix it. It can also fix invalid uninstall info.
Also if you download Tweak UI which is in the Microsoft PowerToys bundle (available from Microsoft and elsewhere), it allows you to edit the Add/Remove uninstall info.I switched from having all games on D: to having everything back on C:, so I had tons of shortcuts and uninstall info pointing to the wrong drive. ------------------
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nealg
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posted 10-03- 11:07 PM
Yard...I had the same question recently when I planned a HD upgrade. I did find an answer, but never used it...and of course I cannot remember. I believe it is from one of my tech sites I have bookmarked...if I find it, I will post the link. As I remember, yes, it can be done. Going looking now..
http://www.annoyances.org/cgi-bin/ce-showtopic/004_024
Try this one....hope the info helps..------------------
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Poniat
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posted 10-04- 01:40 AM
Yard,It's been a long time since I messed my hands with this DOS/Windoze cr** but I can vaguely remember that you could hide (make inactive?) a primary (?) partition on you second (physical) HD in order for the letters not to skip. I remember usin Partition Magic for that. It was an old version given away on the cover of some mag.
At least you could have your letters in proper order.
I'll check all this in the evening (today's evening if I have time  ) Good luck
And get yourself an Amiga (with SDOE prepacked of course)! [as thay say] Out, ------------------
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Yardstick
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posted 10-04- 06:58 AM
Thanks all, I'll try the registry edit suggested in the 'Windows 98 Annoyancies' guide. BTW ATA 100 rocks, I can load a mission in about 2 seconds!!! Even Unreal Tourney now loads in 15 secs!------------------
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Mirthain
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posted 10-04- 12:17 PM
Ok.... here is the way that MS os's assign drive letters
C: = Primary HDD
D: = Second partition OR First Partitionon Second drive
E: = Secondary Partition on C: with extra HDDYou get the point.
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