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HDD Designations from F onwards...

#1 User is offline   Uykucu 

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Posted 18 August 2002 - 11:51 AM

Hi Guys.
I had to reinstall w2k again on one of my PC's recently here is what it was and my problem.

There were 2 HDD's on it which both of them dynamic designated c and d (Dough!) and CD's Y and Z which is irrelevant.

After the format and setup i have performed, when i tried to reach c from the adress bar which is how i usually do it i got an error c is not a valid drive smile

When i looked at it. i saw the HDD's where designated F: and G:

I know it is caused by the information stored on the 8 MB space on the disks, and i can change the secondart one but as you can guess not the boot.

Any suggestions on how to correct this apart from a low level total format???
It ain't terribly important but i have a tendency to look for C over the network so it is annoying when you are in a hurry etc.
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Posted 19 August 2002 - 01:10 AM

I'm doing this from XP, but I believe there should be this option under 2k as well.

Go into Computer Management under Administrative tools-->Storage and go to disk management. Here, you can right click on the drive you want in the right-hand pane and you should seen an option to "Change drive letter and path" That should fix it.
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Posted 19 August 2002 - 10:43 AM

Wouldn't Parition Magic sort this out ?
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#4 User is offline   Uykucu 

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Posted 19 August 2002 - 12:59 PM

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I'm doing this from XP, but I believe there should be this option under 2k as well.

Go into Computer Management under Administrative tools-->Storage and go to disk management. Here, you can right click on the drive you want in the right-hand pane and you should seen an option to "Change drive letter and path" That should fix it.


Yes but it does not let you modify the boot drive. I have already done the rest.

And no PM won't do it... It can change a drive letter but then you can't boot.
any other suggestions apart from another format smile
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