How do i change my hard drive letter to C:
Log on as an Administrator.Start Regedt32.exe.Go to the following registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMMountedDevicesClick MountedDevices.On the Security menu, click Permissions.Verify that Administrators have full control. Change this back when you are finished with these steps.Quit Regedt32.exe, and then start Regedit.exe.Locate the following registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMMountedDevicesFind the drive letter you want to change to (new). Look for "DosDevicesC:".Right-click DosDevicesC:, and then click Rename. Note You must use Regedit instead of Regedt32 to rename this registry key.Rename it to an unused drive letter "DosDevicesZ:". This frees up drive letter C.Find the drive letter you want changed. Look for "DosDevicesD:".Right-click DosDevicesD:, and then click Rename.Rename it to the appropriate (new) drive letter "DosDevicesC:".Click the value for DosDevicesZ:, click Rename, and then name it back to "DosDevicesD:".Quit Regedit, and then start Regedt32.Change the permissions back to the previous setting for Administrators (this should probably be Read Only).Restart the computer.
No drive letter.
So I just hooked up a hard drive with an enclouser and nothing shows in my computer but if i go to storage management i can see the drive there with no drive letter, how can I give it a letter? Thanks.
Changing hard drive letter
My external drive has been recognised as D: by my computer since i bought it, however yesterday it changed to f:. Now there are loads of invalid shortcuts and registry keys. What I want to know is if it is possible to change the drive letter back to d:. Thanks manutdfan
Need some way to re-assign system drive letters
... crash. Now, the 500 is assigned drive E, while the backup drive is still C. I lost my copy ... , but the boot manager on both drives are identical. All I need to do now is somehow change the drive letter of the 500 ... , it'll boot off the 500 instead of going to the backup drive. Disk Management in Windows ...
how to change my dvd drive letter?
title says it all. i just want all my HDDs to be C,D and E, and my dvd drive to be F and G. i just installed a new HDD so right now i have C,D and G. and for the dvd drive E and F. i can't find a way to change the dvd drive letters i have partition magic if i ever need it thank you
Usb drive letter
... make something to work easy for me.. i need to fix a usb drive letter eg, when i plug ... while setting download destination onto the same drive.. so i no need import my unfinished download ... auto assign to the 1st unused letter like e,f,g so the download cant work this way. is there anyway to fix ...
Flash drive letters
... flash drives + other external storage devices I'm having a problem with drive letter assignments. Mostly ... drive. I can't ask the IT server guys to remap the drives of course, why they didn't go from Z-H instead of H-Z is beyond me. I am under the impression that XP does not recognize network drives ...
How to combine 2 HD's to 1 Partition (1 drive letter) ? HP Laptop
... to reinstall Windows on a laptop for someone. But, the way it came is with 2 physical hard drives, but in Windows 7 it shows up as 1 drive letter. It is a HP laptop, does anyone ... do a spanned volume on a system disc. I am assuming they did RAID 0 or 1? Using the Intel storage matrix tool?
Solved: F: drive letter not working (suddenly) for removable storage
... Acer laptop. I have a number of USB storage devices - a digital music player ... flash drives, an external full size HDD (250GB, Western digital). ... in effect on this computer". I have got around the problem by assigning another drive letter, but I have also found that other devices that are assigned ...
Win98 won't assign drive letter to USB storage drive
... .htm before running the setup.exe from disc and then connecting the drive. All seems to go well - I get the dialogue boxes saying the USB storage device is being setup, but windows fails to assign a drive letter. Hence, no access to the USB storage drive. Can anyone ...
installed Windows 7, got a drive letter problem....
... into chkdsk on boot up. fixing errors, then starting the OS. i think it had something to do with drive letter allocation within the OS. i want to try W7 again, but this time i am planning on breaking the raid 0 array into 2 non-raid drives, and use one of them for storage (music/movies/etc.). so ...
New Ultrabay Hard Drive... W500: It sees the hard drive, but no drive letter
... have a Hitachi 5k500 500GB drive to use in the Ultrabay for backups and general extra storage. I made sure I bought the new version of the ultrabay meant for the ... and assaigns a drive number, but it does not recieve a drive letter. I assume that's the problem. I guess it needs to ...
Scrambled drive letter assignments in XP
... major problem. I have a P5B Deluxe Wi-Fi MB with a three drive Raid 5 array (WD RE2 ... 0804 bios on the MB and Intel Matrix Storage Manager for the Raid and non-Raid ... . Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Jim FOLLOW UP: I succeeded in getting rid of the second drive letter on the Raid array ...
A problem with drive letter assignment....
... is due to the fact that they search for system files on drive C by default. Now, I am going to be adding a 74Gb ... and converting it to a secondary storage drive. This would be a good time to solve ... assignment problem. Would anyone know how to straighten out this whole drive letter assignment thing ...
Drive Letter Mishap
... the storage partition was the windows partition I used Partition Magic 8.0 to swap the drive letters. So I did something like C -> Q, D-> C, Q->D. Basically I wanted my windows partition to be C: and to be storage. After disregarding all the warnings I ...
Anyone help with Windows 7 Device/Drive Letters Problems ?
... or SD Cards etc , Windows 7 wont show the device in My Computer in the Drives and Devices if the device has been allocated certain drive ... . For instance if a plug in a 4GB/8GB Flash stick and its allocated the drive letter " F " it wont show it . I need to goto the Computer Management/Storage/Disc ...
Force USB drives to certain drive letters?
At work, any time I plug in a new USB storage device (thumb drive, card reader, camera, GPS), I have to get tech support come and assign that item a new drive letter, if they haven't already done so for that exact device. Meaning, any new thumb drive, even if other thumb drives have ...
Is there any way to get WinXP to stop changing the drive letter of my external USB hard drive?
... will take Drive E when I plug it back in again instead of resuming the role. Now I can change the hard drive back to through computer management, but it's a pain in the ass to have to ... why can't Windows just freeze the drive letters and leave them allocated to their respecitve storage devices? Is ...
Winxp Issue - Drive Letters Keep Getting Messed Up!
... I have just run out of ideas... I have a fairly beafy storage setup for my file server (WinXP Sp2). ... I go into Disk Management neither the c: nor the d: have drive letters assigned. More details: * Swapfile is on the n: drive, though for some reason there always seems to be a swap created on c:, ...
Change boot drive letter back to C:
... installed Win XP Pro. I had a couple of USB storage device installed at the time too. My new drive is listed as ... Primary Master in the CMOS. I unplugged all other devices that get a drive letter, but it is still F: I tried to change it through administrative toolscomputermanagement but it ...
Solved: Batch File Backup when USB drive letter switches
... "backup" file that is schedule to run nightly to a USB External Hard Drive. (works great) Issue sometimes the USB drive letter gets switched if a user pulls out and/or puts in another USB storage key or other device. How can I set up the batch file to access the ...
Change Hard and CD-ROM Drive Letter in XP Pro
... Big Bertha, specs below) I was warned by WinXp that if I changed drive letters some of my programs may not work properly! Is this true? This is my hard drives setup: HDD 1 has 60GB - ... Management", click on "Disk Management" under "Storage" from the left menu 5. You should see a window ...
changing drive letter.
Ok I recently reformatted and reinstalled windows, but I have one problem. I like to keep a storage partision seperate from ym OS/apps partision and when I ... this through Disk management I get an error telling me this: "Windows cannot modify the drive letter of your system volume or boot volume" Is ...
Drive letters assigned to non-existent drives
... I am having a problem in how my PC recognizes and assigns storage drives. The drive letters A & G are assigned to non-existent ... drive and USB-to-IDE connector that I have occassionally used. Somehow my PC shows the driver letters as being assigned even though neither device is connected. If I click ...