Reassigning drive letters

[Jimmy Macintosh]

Hi, thanks to those that gave the information on my data recovery thread. Anyway, I've now installed a new hard drive and reinstalled windows XP, the thing is it seems to have assigned my USB ports letters C-H, and my hard drive is listed as I. This is a pain but I don't know how to reassign the drive letters to make my hard drive C and not to even register my USB devices unless they're plugged in.
Thanks in advance,

Jimmy.

[WALSue]

Might be a bit difficult if you've already installed software.
To be honest my harddrive is H and not caused any problems but you can try:
Right click on My Computer and choose Manage and then click Storage on the left hand side followed by disk management
Right-click the drive you want to change and choose Change Drive Letter then click Change
Select the drive letter to which you want to assign it

Hope that helps!

[Keef]

If it's booting from a hard drive that's assigned letter I: then I'm curious.

Otherwise...

Leave the USB etc drives plugged in;

Start - Control Panel - Administrative Tools - Computer Management - Disk Management -

and change the letters to the ones you want.

And if you were booting from a USB drive that got assigned C: and is now something else, it will be "interesting".

[spannersatcx]

As far as I know you can't. My 2nd pc's boot HDD is J. Doesn't really make a lot of difference as far as I can tell.

open Computer Management, click Start, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel. Double-click Administrative Tools, and then double-click Computer Management. In storage you can select disk management, where you can view your hard drives, in there you can rename drives.

I think you can also do it in powertoys a free MS download.

[Keef]

You can do it, quite easily, by right-clicking on the drive you want to change when you are at "Disk Management".

Just be careful what you change

[spannersatcx]

Can you change the boot drive, drive letter? didn't think you could.

[Jimmy Macintosh]

It seems thst you're right when you say that you cannot change the boot drive letter. It just struck me as odd, after the first install my drives were labelled in the traditional sense, C: HDD, D: first CD, E: DVD, then all of the smart card slots followed on. I turn on the machine the next day, all of the USB's take up C and up (no drives on these, one broadband modem and the other is a printer the other four aren't in use yet), my HDD is now I: It just seemed odd.

Thanks for all of your input and I guess I'm now running a system where I: is my HDD.

Cheers,
Jimmy