How do I change my drive letter assignments? 1

[Guest_imported]

I have a PC with a partitioned 32GB hard drive. Primary C: and secondary d:. My CD-ROM and CD-RW drives take up G; and H:. My floppy takes up A:. I want to make the floppy X: and d: Y:. How do I do this? Thanks.

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[butchrecon]

If you are using Windows 98 or 95 you cannot without a partitioning software. If you are using Windows 2000 or NT right click on My Computer and go to manage. Click on the Disk Administrator folder and just right click on the drive in question. James Collins
Computer Hardware Engineer
A+, MCP

email: butchrecon@skyenet.net

 

[txtxcowboy]

First of all you CAN change the drive letter assignments in Win95/Win98, the thing is, you can only change cd-rom and external device letters (such as zip drives and such) go to System properties, double click the cd-rom tab, then double click the cd-rom drive, then choose settings, at the bottom of this page you will see the drive letter assignments that you can drop down and change. It will also show you the current drive letter assignment.

Peace,

Dave

 

[butchrecon]

What he is trying to change he cannot under Win98 i believe. I understand that some devices can be changer but the floppy cannot. unless someone else know of a way. Other than partitioning software. James Collins
Computer Hardware Engineer
A+, MCP

email: butchrecon@skyenet.net

 

[Alt255]

You might be able to do this (to a point) with the old SUBST command. I wasn't able to create your exact requirements on this test system (obviously, a different set of drive assignments from what you are working with)... but this batch file worked fine....
[tt]
@echo off
REM CREATE VIRTUAL DRIVES
subst i: c:subst j: c:subst k: c:subst l: a:subst m: d:REM REMOVE UNWANTED SUBSTITUTIONS
subst i: /d
subst j: /d
subst k: /d
REM DRIVE A: IS NOW L:
REM DRIVE D: IS NOW M:
[/tt]
I mapped temporary virtual drive assignments (starting with the first available drive after the CD-ROM) until I reached the letters I wanted to represent A: and D:

Then I deleted all the assignments except L:=>A: and M:=>D:

You might get the desired results on your system if you play around with the batch file. Have fun.

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