This situation should be a rare occurrence, and you should change the drive letters back to match the initial installation. To change or swap drive letters on volumes that can't otherwise be changed using the Disk Management snap-in, use the following steps.
In these steps, drive D refers to the wrong drive letter assigned to a volume, and drive C refers to the new drive letter you want to change to, or to assign to the volume. This procedure swaps drive letters for drives C and D. This section, method, or task contains steps that tell you how to modify the registry. However, serious problems might occur if you modify the registry incorrectly. Therefore, make sure that you follow these steps carefully.
For added protection, back up the registry before you modify it. Then, you can restore the registry if a problem occurs. Just simply download this a file sharing program called "Ares Galaxy". The function that you will be using is "Drive Mapper" under tool tag From: aht-ga on 12 Feb PST.
Do you truly think that this is an appropriate thing for you to be doing? While your advice regarding Partition Magic is helpful, advising someone to obtain the software without compensating the developers is inappropriate even as a comment. Best regards, aht-ga Google Answers Researcher. As you can see, the setup program now displays where it will install the software, as well as a Change… button so you can alter that.
Click that and:. Nine times out of ten, the install location is hidden therein. Subscribe to Confident Computing! Less frustration and more confidence, solutions, answers, and tips in your inbox every week. Why not move a lot of your data files instead? It used to be that adding a second drive with a primary partition on it would cause the secondary partition s on the primary drive to shift.
I would recommend to make room on the C: partition by moving the user files Documents, Pictures, Videos, etc. That is dead easy and will free up room. The second is half of the remainder. That way I have enough space to cover everything that I want on the drive. It is possible to force-assign a drive letter using Disk Management. I have not tried this, and there might be a risk to confuse Windows with respect to allready installed programs, but why should there?
If there is an option to install to other thban Drive C, I always install programs on another drive. Click to expand All I really need to know is I am using XP.
The only thing I still had connected was my printer. Ive never unplugged it before and havent had this problem Joined Mar 4, Messages 8, SAW said:. Joined Feb 8, Messages Yes you will have problems. There are quite a few things that auto install to the C: drive by default they just give errors on install. Just reformat it is easier. DeaconFrost [H]F Junkie. Joined Sep 6, Messages 11, Some applications could have the paths hardcoded in using C instead of having the system variable in its place.
That would bother me in a sense, so I'd want to rectify the situation. The only way to fix it without grief or issues down the line is to do a complete reinstall. We can go on and on about what caused it, but the simple fact is, slowing down a bit and paying attention to the install routine's screens would prevent this.
At some point, it would have shown you it was grabbing the letter E, and given you a chance to back out. You should be able to figure out what was using C, which was probably another formatted drive in the system.
Your optical drive would be D, leaving E as the next free letter. If so, disconnect the other hard drive, install, then reconnect it. DeaconFrost said:. It's possible that it could have been your printer's card reader if it has one built in. As for the second hard drive, if you unplug either the data, power, or both cables, it would be fine.
I prefer to unplug the power cable to a drive, so it isn't spinning up for nothing. I forgot to mention But, as Ive said, Ive gone thru this many times over the years using the same printer and keyboard. Ive never run into this problem before. Glad I already went thru and burned all the updated drivers this time. Reinstalling the OS shouldnt take that long this time. Well, I got all the updates but one I wanted to get service pack 2 updates burned onto a disc too prior to hooking up to the net.
Could someone link me Maybe you will have better luck that I did. TIA for your help and replies. Joined Nov 12, Messages 1, DrDoU 2[H]4U.
Joined Jun 4, Messages 2, So, I need to reinstall XP now so to try and get it to use "C" as its drive letter. I went into the Setup area of the boot disc, but I didnt see any option to format or reformat the HD.
Im guessing thats because the HD has already been formated. I chose the option of installing the OS So, I went into Accesosories, but I didnt see any options there either.
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