Changing Drive Letters In Windows Xp
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</p><h3 class="heading-h1"><a name="ChangingDriveLettersinWindowsXP" class="anchorpoint"></a>Changing Drive Letters in Windows XP</h3><p class="paragraph"><strong class="bold">Contributor(s):</strong> David Germano</p><p class="paragraph">When one adds a new hard drive, partition, or CD-ROM, the natural order of the drives may be changed. In running THL offline, the hard drive containing the data has to be “d” so this will create a problem. This will walk you through changing the drive letters to whatever you want.
</p><ol><li>Open the Control Panel</li>
<li>Select Classic View (if not already setup that way)</li>
<li>Click Administrative Tools Folder</li>
<li>Double-click the Computer Management icon</li>
<li>Computer Management window will open. Click storage in the left page.</li>
<li>Double-click Disk Management</li>
<li>Right-click the drive you want to change</li>
<li>Select Change Drive Letter and Paths</li>
<li>Click the Change Button</li>
<li>Select the drive letter to which you want to assign it</li>
<li>Note the warning and agree if you accept the risks</li>
<li>Close out the disk management</li></ol><p class="paragraph">Switching drive letters need an extra step. As two drives cannot be assigned to the same letter, you many need to temporarily change one of the drives to something random.</p><p class="paragraph">For example, after installing a new storage hard drive, my system had my main drive as C, CD-ROM as D, and storage drive as E. I switch my CD-ROM to X for a second, switch my storage drive to D, and then assign my CD-ROM to E. The switch is completed.</p><p class="paragraph">Warnings:
</p><ol><li>You should not change drives containing system information or installed programs.</li>
<li>You should not change your CD-ROM drive if an installed program looks for a "run disk" in order to run</li></ol><p class="paragraph">
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