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How do i change a drive letter?

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Old 19th Mar 2007, 18:37
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How do i change a drive letter?

Is it possible to change a drive letter without messing around with 3rd party software tools? or if it isnt, free 3rd party tools?

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If you are playing with XP, on the desktop, right click on My Computer, select MANAGE and then STORAGE - DISK MANAGEMENT, right click on the disk you want to change and select Change Drive Letter.

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Of course, you will find that you can't change the drive letter for a boot or system drive. Note that the 2 can be the same OR different disks.

It's one of my greatest hates that MS never got around to managing the installation of any OS properly in a multi-disk or multi-partition environment.

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Yeah, i have C: AND D: and both cant be changed because of that...

I did a really stupid thing, i clean installed Vista, but delete the partition and then re-created it and now vista is on D:

But i have a restore partition, so

Restore = Partition 1
Windows = Partition 2 (D
Data = Partition 3 (C:

Some how i have managed to mess the drive lettering up,

I have a full partition of data otherwise i'd format both and start again, but i cant be bothered to backup 100gigs of data on like 24 dvd's...

Oh well,
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