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Re: Vista and XP: Reassign/Change Drive Letters

Vste787728 — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 12:47:37 -0000

thanks a lot i was about to delete my i tune libary and start over again because the drive alphabets got changed

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registrycleaner — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 12:40:02 -0000

i have an XP machine. it has had an external hard drive connected that has all my music loaded on.

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Trilliongrams — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 16:49:37 -0000

This worked when I had to reinstall my internal media card reader on my Dell Inspirion. When I booted up the machine, the card reader claimed F: as its own, but I had a networked drive that had that letter first. Easy fix! Reassign card reader to J:, and my networked drive was free to use F: again.

Thanks MickeyMouse!

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Imnaughtynow — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 17:13:09 -0000

i am unable to get to my control menu now what ?? plz help

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car dvd for chrysler 300c — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 04:59:05 -0000

That is exactly what I needed after I partitioned.

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Edozaone — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 17:36:53 -0000

I ran into this situation fouling around with more than one IDE, SATA and External hard drives. I learned to start wisely and pay attention to which OS formats the hard drive and what role the bios hard drive assignment detect. When I started to format the hard drives the bios had to be updated, there's a noval idea, how does the bios get explaned. Good luck and keep truckin-there are ansers.

Re: Vista and XP: Reassign/Change Drive Letters

Edozaone — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 17:28:15 -0000

Cannot change drive letters in a dual boot situation XP, VISTA, Win 7. I have two IDE drives and two SATA drives in the same computer, one external USB drive, the mobo is ASUS P4S800D-X. Everything works fine. Run Battlefield 2142, Modern Warefare 2,
Quake Wars and EMPIRE: TOTAL WAR. I tried to change the drive letter for XP to C: from L: Need C: drive letter to install my version of MAYA software, couldn"t do it. Can you help, thanks.

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msujedi — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:50:14 -0000

Fantastic! Windows XP now recognizes my 2nd hard drive! Thanks.

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chicka — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 01:13:03 -0000

Hi
My cd rom drive won't allow a right click

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david — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 19:45:49 -0000

Thank you SOOOOOOOO much!!!!! you wouldn't believe how much this has helped me!!! you guys are the best :)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Re: Vista and XP: Reassign/Change Drive Letters

Lee — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 18:30:25 -0000

I want to switch the drive letter between E and F. Referring to your instruction, I changed the drive E to X successfully. However, I can't find out the E in the drop down list when I tried to change the drive F to E. I also tried to reboot the company and do it again. However, I'm still unable to get letter of E in the drop down list. What should I do in this situation?

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Jim — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:07:34 -0000

i have an XP machine. it has had an external hard drive connected that has all my music loaded on. it has worked fine for a few years. music is set up through media player, i have also built playlists, etc. in My Computer, this external has always been "L drive". all of the sudden it doesnt show up in my computer, i cant access music in media player- no paths. i tried plugging it into other USB ports with still no recognizing of the drive. i have plugged mp3 players into these USB ports, and they do get recognized. i plugged a different external hard drive into the USB ports, and it doesnt show up either. does my computer now have a prob with external hard drives? very strange- HELP

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Anonymous — Sat, 18 Jun 2005 08:39:43 -0000

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JustAGuy — Sun, 08 May 2005 19:47:50 -0000

That information was just what I needed. once again thank you

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Anonymous — Mon, 21 Feb 2005 03:27:33 -0000

Forgot exactly where I googled this from, but it worked for me in the same circumstances:

This procedure swaps drive letters for drives C and D. If you do not need to swap drive letters, simply name the DosDeviceletter: value to any new drive letter not in use.
1. Make a full system backup of the computer and system state.

2. Log on as an Administrator.

3. Start Regedt32.exe.

4. Go to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMMountedDevices key.

5. Click MountedDevices. On the Security menu, click Permissions. Check to make sure Administrators have full control. Change this back when you are finished with these steps.

6. Quit Regedt32 and start Regedit.exe Go to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMMountedDevices key.

7. Find the drive letter you want to change to (new). Look for "DosDevicesC:".

8. Right-click DosDevicesC:, and then click Rename.

9. Rename it to an unused drive letter "DosDevicesZ:". (This will free up drive letter C: to be used later.)

10. Find the drive letter you want changed. Look for "DosDevicesD:".

11. Right-click DosDevicesD:, and then click Rename.

12. Rename it to the appropriate (new) drive letter "DosDevicesC:".

13. Click the value for DosDevicesZ:, click Rename, and name it back to "DosDevicesD:".

14. Quit Regedit and start Regedt32.

15. Change the permissions back to the previous setting for Administrators (this should probably be Read Only).

16. Restart the computer.

Re: Vista and XP: Reassign/Change Drive Letters

geschman — Mon, 24 Jan 2005 06:04:47 -0000

In the installation of a NEW primary hard drive, somehow it was assigned 'E' instead of 'C'.

Using the procedure to reassign it to 'C' does not work.

The procedure does NOT allow reassigning the boot drive letter.

Anyone have any ideas?

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Anonymous — Sun, 16 Jan 2005 17:21:43 -0000

THANNK YOU!

my dvd rom drive & cdrw were in the wrong letter order

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Anonymous — Tue, 12 Oct 2004 08:21:12 -0000

Thanks!!!
That is exactly what I needed after I partitioned.

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flowerbot — Sat, 09 Oct 2004 14:35:29 -0000

Thanks - you saved my bacon. I had a USB mass storage device that wasn't showing in Explorer. Didn't realise I had to format & register it here first ... (assumed it had arrived already formatted).