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Drive Letter Change - Program and Application Paths
Hi, Recently I had to reload XP and for some reason, probably by me not
paying attention, the drive letter became "D", or the boot drive and my secondary drive "C" I would like to change "D" back to "C" and vice versa. Problem is, when I did this following Microsoft's procedure in their knowledge base, programs that pointed to "D" no longer function properly displaying an error message to an incorrect path. Anyone know of a solution or work around for this problem? Thanks, dphkr |
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Drive Letter Change - Program and Application Paths
The one drive letter you cannot change is the system drive. This happens to
people when a second drive is hooked during a reinstallation. Disconnect all drives, including any zip drives and such, and reinstall Windows. If you don't some software may not function correctly down the line. -- Colin Barnhorst [MVP Windows - Virtual Machine] (Reply to the group only unless otherwise requested) "dphkr" wrote in message ... Hi, Recently I had to reload XP and for some reason, probably by me not paying attention, the drive letter became "D", or the boot drive and my secondary drive "C" I would like to change "D" back to "C" and vice versa. Problem is, when I did this following Microsoft's procedure in their knowledge base, programs that pointed to "D" no longer function properly displaying an error message to an incorrect path. Anyone know of a solution or work around for this problem? Thanks, dphkr |
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Drive Letter Change - Program and Application Paths
You need to manually "repoint" the older software by changing the
destination path in the properties. Just righ click the shortcut and change the D to a C and it should be OK. "dphkr" wrote in message ... Hi, Recently I had to reload XP and for some reason, probably by me not paying attention, the drive letter became "D", or the boot drive and my secondary drive "C" I would like to change "D" back to "C" and vice versa. Problem is, when I did this following Microsoft's procedure in their knowledge base, programs that pointed to "D" no longer function properly displaying an error message to an incorrect path. Anyone know of a solution or work around for this problem? Thanks, dphkr |
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Drive Letter Change - Program and Application Paths
Actually, there is a way to do it, but it's a little ugly. I've done it
following these instructions, though - it worked well. http://www.petri.co.il/change_system...windows_xp.htm http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q223188/ Good luck! grep Colin Barnhorst wrote: The one drive letter you cannot change is the system drive. This happens to people when a second drive is hooked during a reinstallation. Disconnect all drives, including any zip drives and such, and reinstall Windows. If you don't some software may not function correctly down the line. |
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Drive Letter Change - Program and Application Paths
Hi,
Not recommended, as you will never get all the pointers right. The second article only applies when the drive letter was changed accidentally away from its original designation in the first place. -- Best of Luck, Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone Windows help - www.rickrogers.org "grep" wrote in message ... Actually, there is a way to do it, but it's a little ugly. I've done it following these instructions, though - it worked well. http://www.petri.co.il/change_system...windows_xp.htm http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q223188/ Good luck! grep Colin Barnhorst wrote: The one drive letter you cannot change is the system drive. This happens to people when a second drive is hooked during a reinstallation. Disconnect all drives, including any zip drives and such, and reinstall Windows. If you don't some software may not function correctly down the line. |
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