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W2K Pro drive letters reassigned...

Nov 23, 2004 7:26PM PST

Here's a strange....

I have a lot of drives on my system, and they used to be:

A floppy
C Local (FAT 32 partition of D)
D Local main NTFS
E CDR
F DVDR
G Removable disk (when digital camera is plugged in)
H Local NTFS

Two nights ago all was well. I performed a Norton Ghost by removing H (it is in a slide tray) and installing another C/D drive for copy. I Ghosted DISK 1 C/D to DISK 2 C/D. All went well. The next morning I remove the Ghosted drive and reinserted the H. Now my drive desinations have changed. I didn't notice it at first...

Now I have:

A floppy
D main
E CDR
F DVDR
G Removable (WHICH WAS C!!!)
H Local NTFS

Now, when I plug my digital camera in, it becomes

C Removable.

Everything is intact, I just have all my drive designations scrambled. Not sure what if any problems might crop up with C being changed to G.

I must admit it is all confusing to me. Not sure what happened. Need I be concerned and is there a suggestion for changing them around?

Thanks,

CG

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Re: W2K Pro drive letters reassigned...
Nov 23, 2004 8:40PM PST

This is typical for the Zip Drive bug that exists in Windows.

Workaround is to unplug Zip drives during installs or what procedure you did.

Best of luck,

bob

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Re: W2K Pro drive letters reassigned...
Nov 24, 2004 7:04PM PST

you can reassign drives by going to administrative tools in contol panel.
double click computer management.
and then double click on disk management.
rearange drive letters.

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(NT) (NT) Except for drive on which Win2K resides
Nov 25, 2004 12:06AM PST
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Read this then give it a try...
Nov 25, 2004 7:55AM PST
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Fails for me. Here's why...
Nov 25, 2004 12:26PM PST

I found that installed software has registry keys that point to another drive and this effectively pulls the rug out from under other software.

But Windows does indeed work. Just not much else.

Proceed with this in mind.

Bob

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Re: Fails for me. Here's why...
Nov 27, 2004 5:12AM PST

In his particular circumstances that (while normally a very real problem) should not be an issue as everything is still installed on the partition it was initially installed to--only the drive letter changed.

It isn't the case of wanting to change the OS to a new partition as is often asked about.