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Old 06-03-2007, 05:40 PM
Murs01
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hard drive letter changed

I have two hard drives ... they had been specified as C: and E:

I have two cd/dvd's that I believe had been specified as D: and F:

somehow, hard drive E: is now specified as D: and of course some programs do
not work properly or files are not found. And, the dvd's are now E: and F:

I have no idea how this happened.

If I try to respecify my now hard drive D: ... E is a not a choice because
there is a dvd drive on E: I cannot figure out how to respecify the DVD
drive in order to then specify hard drive D as E

Any ideas?

Thanks.
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Old 06-03-2007, 05:50 PM
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Re: hard drive letter changed

Murs01 wrote:
> I have two hard drives ... they had been specified as C: and E:
>
> I have two cd/dvd's that I believe had been specified as D: and F:
>
> somehow, hard drive E: is now specified as D: and of course some
> programs do not work properly or files are not found. And, the
> dvd's are now E: and F:
>
> I have no idea how this happened.
>
> If I try to respecify my now hard drive D: ... E is a not a choice
> because there is a dvd drive on E: I cannot figure out how to
> respecify the DVD drive in order to then specify hard drive D as E
>
> Any ideas?


Disk management...
Change DVD to Z:...
Change HDD to E:...
Change DVD to D:...

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"Murs01" <Murs01@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:0D0BC5FE-0268-4508-8E02-BA653AC15CF2@microsoft.com...
>I have two hard drives ... they had been specified as C: and E:
>
> I have two cd/dvd's that I believe had been specified as D: and F:
>
> somehow, hard drive E: is now specified as D: and of course some programs
> do
> not work properly or files are not found. And, the dvd's are now E: and
> F:
>
> I have no idea how this happened.
>
> If I try to respecify my now hard drive D: ... E is a not a choice
> because
> there is a dvd drive on E: I cannot figure out how to respecify the DVD
> drive in order to then specify hard drive D as E
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks.


Change the offending ones to G and H. change the good ones to those letters
now vacated. Change G and H back to where you want them. Etc.

Galen


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