How do I change a Drive Letter?

[Jedi420]

I need to change my D drive to a G drive ... is that possible? And if so, how would I go about doing it? Thnx! (^_^)

-Jedi420

A man who has risked his life knows that careers are worthless, and a man who will not risk his career has a worthless life.

 

[bcastner]

If the drive that XP Boots from, do not do it.

If these are removable drive letters, I feel disctincly uncomfortable about the deal, but it can be done:

Use Control Panel. Admistrative Tools, Computer Management, Disk Tools

Change drive letter D to H
Change drive letter G to D
Change drive letter D to G

Pray.

 

[mkov]

Control Panel - Administrative Tools - Disk Management

Select Disk Management on the left

Bottom right section, choose the drive you want to change the drive letter on.

Right click - choose change drive letter and paths.

Choose change and assign the new drive letter.

 

[soaplover]

If you have applications/games etc. installed to D:
the registry will point to wrong drive all over the place for all your apps/games resulting them in non working .

If you have Norton Works or something like the registry fixer in norton it often fix the replaced drive letters.
But there is no guarranty that all will work after.
You can always change back. Or reintall apps having problems.

//Soaplover

 

[Jedi420]

Thanks alot guys. This is not a permanent move. I just needed the Drive letter changed so that a program I'm working on will run so that I can test it. Trust me, changing the drive letter to G, then back to D is a lot easier than changing every table reference in my database. Appreciate the help guys!

-Jedi240

A man who has risked his life knows that careers are worthless, and a man who will not risk his career has a worthless life.

 

[gpalmer711]

In that case the best thing to do is share out the folder that contains your database. Then map the drive letterG: to \\ComputerName\ShareName.

you can then remove the share when you are done.

Greg Palmer

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[flyboytim]

if you have not got a drive already designated as G:\ you can use the command SUBST G: D: for that session

 

[sohck]

Hi,

I too want to change my drive letters as it is rather odd now. My master harddisk is partitioned into two drives: C: and F: and my USB Drive is partitioned into E: and F:. All my applications are installed in C: and D:, E: and F: only contain data. Do you think it is worth a risk swapping the drive letters?

 

[soaplover]

don't touch c: and d:
if you change the registry won't find your applications/games .
Don't change your cdrom drives if you do
games that relay on cd insrted wont find the cd.

disks with pure datastorage is okay .

why change anyways its only letters .
Assign volume names insted for identification