Move a partitioned drive letter?

[Brian V]

Is it possible to move a partitioned drive letter?

Eg: Before I had Drive C and D (the hard-drive partitioned) and the DVD-Rom
was drive E.

Not Drive D is the DVD-ROM drive and the old Drive D is Drive I.

The card-reader is now Drive E,F,G,H.

Can Drive I become Drive D, and push the rest of the drives down a letter?

I had a music program that recognized the files used from which drive they
were located on. The program is looking at Drive D and the file extensions
not Drive I where they now are. Same drive, just a different letter. So its
now I:Music/Music Sounds, not D:Music/Music Sounds.

Since the older set-up was a pre-build Acer, I believe a person or machine
installed the hard-drive first and loaded windows then loaded the dvd-rom
drive or the drive was installed with windows and the partitions already then
the dvd-rom was recognized.

I am living OEM free and loving the freedom.

 

[Pegasus [MVP]]

"Brian V" <BrianV@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:14122F1C-FD2C-4E91-92CE-EB0AD8E8C190@microsoft.com...
> Is it possible to move a partitioned drive letter?
>
> Eg: Before I had Drive C and D (the hard-drive partitioned) and the
> DVD-Rom
> was drive E.
>
> Not Drive D is the DVD-ROM drive and the old Drive D is Drive I.
>
> The card-reader is now Drive E,F,G,H.
>
> Can Drive I become Drive D, and push the rest of the drives down a letter?
>
> I had a music program that recognized the files used from which drive they
> were located on. The program is looking at Drive D and the file extensions
> not Drive I where they now are. Same drive, just a different letter. So
> its
> now I:Music/Music Sounds, not D:Music/Music Sounds.
>
> Since the older set-up was a pre-build Acer, I believe a person or machine
> installed the hard-drive first and loaded windows then loaded the dvd-rom
> drive or the drive was installed with windows and the partitions already
> then
> the dvd-rom was recognized.
>
> I am living OEM free and loving the freedom.

Run diskmgmt.msc to modify your driver letters.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Brian V wrote:
> Is it possible to move a partitioned drive letter?
>
> Eg: Before I had Drive C and D (the hard-drive partitioned) and the DVD-Rom
> was drive E.
>
> Not Drive D is the DVD-ROM drive and the old Drive D is Drive I.
>
> The card-reader is now Drive E,F,G,H.
>
> Can Drive I become Drive D, and push the rest of the drives down a letter?
>
> I had a music program that recognized the files used from which drive they
> were located on. The program is looking at Drive D and the file extensions
> not Drive I where they now are. Same drive, just a different letter. So its
> now I:Music/Music Sounds, not D:Music/Music Sounds.
>
> Since the older set-up was a pre-build Acer, I believe a person or machine
> installed the hard-drive first and loaded windows then loaded the dvd-rom
> drive or the drive was installed with windows and the partitions already then
> the dvd-rom was recognized.
>
> I am living OEM free and loving the freedom.


Right-click My Computer > Manage > Disk Management > right-click
the desired drive/partition > Change Drive letter and paths....

Personally, I always assign my CD/DVD drives letters far enough
down the alphabet to keep them from interfering with the lettering of my
often changing hard drive partitions. For instances, I usually label
CD/DVD-ROM drives as R: (for Read-Only), CDR/CDRWs as W: (for Writable),
and Zip drives as Z: (for the obvious). This lettering system is, of
course, not necessary; it's purely a matter of personal preference.


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[Barry Schwarz]

On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 23:05:01 -0700, Brian V
<BrianV@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Is it possible to move a partitioned drive letter?
>
>Eg: Before I had Drive C and D (the hard-drive partitioned) and the DVD-Rom
>was drive E.
>
>Not Drive D is the DVD-ROM drive and the old Drive D is Drive I.
>
>The card-reader is now Drive E,F,G,H.
>
>Can Drive I become Drive D, and push the rest of the drives down a letter?

While lots of programs can do this, you need to be concerned about
registry entries that reference the current letter and will not know
about the new letter. (Actually, in this case you are trying to
correct this exact situation for your music files. But are you sure
no other programs have created registry entries that reference I?)

>
>I had a music program that recognized the files used from which drive they
>were located on. The program is looking at Drive D and the file extensions
>not Drive I where they now are. Same drive, just a different letter. So its
>now I:Music/Music Sounds, not D:Music/Music Sounds.

While many programs track recently used files that way, I have never
seen a program that would not let you navigate (or browse) to find
"new" files. If the file extension is associated with the program,
then you could even have the program process the file from Windows
Explorer.

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[Brian V]

Is there a way to correct the registery? Would updating it work? In my
Norton 360 it clears broken registery links. Would this fix the registry
situation?

Maybe one or two programs would have to be re-installed on said particular
partition. It's mainly files that can be moved.

Some older programs will find the new files but since some are old (like my
music program) information is fixed. I am going to finish using the programs,
and may be able to run the stuff off of my dvd-rom, but right now I need to
see what I can recover.

I am seeing a little partition which is the hidden one I think. Need to take
care of that.