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| Thread ID: 27070 | 2002-11-13 00:22:00 | How do I change a drive letter (win98) | Jimmy D (2061) | Press F1 |
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| 98222 | 2002-11-13 00:22:00 | I have a 20gig harddisk which is partitioned in half, and i have another old 1.5gig harddisk which is not. the 1st half of my 20gig is C: drive, the 1.5gig is D: drive and the second half of my 20gig is E: drive. My problem is that i want to get rid of the 1.5gig (D:) because it is causing faults as it is old. But when i disconnect the 1.5gig E: drive becomes D: and all my programmes such as virus scanners and various other things stop working because the drive letter has changed. is there a way to change D: to E: on my windows 98 se machine? J.D. |
Jimmy D (2061) | ||
| 98223 | 2002-11-13 00:54:00 | The problem was probably caused initially by the partition on the 1.5 G drive being a primary partition, so it was given the next letter. I think that there are utils for remapping drive letters under Windows, a Google search may give some, and there could be some in the Simtel diskutil archives. The problem is that if you use one of these and reboot using DOS, the drive letters will revert back to where they were, and so confusion may be caused. Maybe someone has a simple solution to this. Partition Magic can re-assign drive letters when a partition is changed, but that may not be much help if you dont have it. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 98224 | 2002-11-13 02:06:00 | I found this site which has a drive letter assigning utility. May be interesting to look at. www.v72735.f2s.com |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 98225 | 2002-11-13 02:21:00 | I don't think that there's any real "proper" fix for this except reinstalling things. Maybe a format and reinstall. :D One thing I have done in the registry of Win95 is use the "search" function of Regedit to look for "D:", and change the entry for the Windows installation device so that it pointed to the copy I put onto the hard disk, so it wouldn't keep asking for the CD. That technique might work for you ... it won't fix all the problems: you would still need to fix shortcuts, batch files, etc, as they give you error messages. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 98226 | 2002-11-13 02:54:00 | Thats whats good about Partition Magic - after mapping it will also fix shortcuts so they will point to the new drive. But as mentioned early thats of little value if you aint got PM. | parry (27) | ||
| 98227 | 2002-11-13 03:23:00 | Well, Ive tested out that drive letter assign utility quoted above and it works well . So easy you dont even have to read the Help, though that would help :) It also has a small dos program that gets loaded by it putting a line in autoexec . bat, so that when you boot into DOS from the hard drive, the letter re-assignment still works . If you boot from a floppy, then of course the drive letter reverts to what the BIOS sets . It would be possible to add the DOS program to a boot floppy with basically the same line in the autoexec . bat and the . dat file that has the info on the drive letter changes . I think it would do all that you want to do without the problems of hacking into all the registry references etc to change program drive letters . Its worth trying as no harm can come from it, and if you dont want to use it, then it is easily uninstalled . Cheers |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
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