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| 339910 | 2005-03-31 08:25:00 | I have just had my Hard Drive reformatted and reinstalled windows XP. The person who did this failed to notice that a 4 Card reader was also installed, and consequently, the primary Hard Drive has been labelled "H" and not "C". I have some specialised software that is calling for programmes buried within to be accessed on Drive C - but Drive C is now a Card Reader, so the programmes crash. How do I relabel the primary hard drive from "H" back to "C" ?? Many thanks for any help RET |
RETFisher (7755) | ||
| 339911 | 2005-03-31 08:33:00 | Go into Computer Management and select Disk Management. Right click on the drives and choose Change Drive letter. Rename card reader to something else - I or J maybe. Then chnage the hard drive back to C: Then change the card reader back to whatever is the next available. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 339912 | 2005-03-31 08:36:00 | That could be a prob, as XP is now on H, and everything on the hdd is pointing to H. And trying to rename H to C, would makes things worse, as everything will search for programs on H, which will be the reader, and it'll crash more. You would also have to change everything in the registry as well, if u did rename H to C. I had the same prob as u when I reinstalled XP on this last year. I've got an internal Apacer 7-1 USB 2 card reader, and did exactly what u did (forgot to unplug it), before I reinstalled Windows. I dont think u can do anything else BUT reinstall XP. And unplug the reader, before u reinstall XP again. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 339913 | 2005-03-31 08:37:00 | Try this .... Change drive letters (www.tweakxp.com) Which is basically what they said ^^ |
Myth (110) | ||
| 339914 | 2005-03-31 08:59:00 | Yup, lots of dire warning from MS in this article (support.microsoft.com) about changing boot drive letters when the letter has not changed without user intervention, as in the case of a (re)installation. Looks like it might work all the same though, although it wouldn't be a surprise if there were some strange goings on. At the end of the day it will probably be better to reinstall XP without the card reader pluged in, you could try a repair; fix boot, fixmbr, sans card reader, but I'm not sure that would work either. |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 339915 | 2005-03-31 09:29:00 | XP won't let you change the letter of your system volume or boot volume, so a re-install is probably the best idea, and it shouldn't matter too much if you've only just re-installed anyway | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 339916 | 2005-04-02 02:01:00 | or relabel your card reader using disk management then use "subst" to to make a virtual drive C:\ for help on "subst" type subst /? at a cmd prompt |
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