Assigning drive letters in XP

Hector's House · 12-01-2004, 11:24

I currently have one hdd, which xp sees as drive "C" and a dvd which is "D", if I add another hdd xp will assign it drive letter "E" (I think/assume). Can I change the drive letters so the 2nd hdd is "D" and the dvd is something else. I'm sure this is possible and if so how do I do it?

Paul K · 12-01-2004, 11:28

admin tools, computer management, Disk Management, Right click the drive in question and assign a new letter.

Xaccers · 12-01-2004, 11:28

Not sure about XP home but try this

Right click my computer on your desktop
Click on manage
Under storage select Disk Managment
There you should be able to right click your drives and re-assign their letters.

I normally move my CD & DVD drives to Y: and Z: as I use network drives at home

darkangel · 12-01-2004, 11:29

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Originally Posted by Hector's House

I currently have one hdd, which xp sees as drive "C" and a dvd which is "D", if I add another hdd xp will assign it drive letter "E" (I think/assume). Can I change the drive letters so the 2nd hdd is "D" and the dvd is something else. I'm sure this is possible and if so how do I do it?

go to control panel>administrative tools>computer management>disk management right clicking on any drive will give u options
edit:-damm beaten to it

again

paulyoung666 · 12-01-2004, 11:31

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Originally Posted by Xaccers

Not sure about XP home but try this

Right click my computer on your desktop
Click on manage
Under storage select Disk Managment
There you should be able to right click your drives and re-assign their letters.

I normally move my CD & DVD drives to Y: and Z: as I use network drives at home

just checked and you cant alter the letter of the boot hdd , but i would assume you will be able to alter anything else

Xaccers · 12-01-2004, 11:34

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Originally Posted by paulyoung666

just checked and you cant alter the letter of the boot hdd , but i would assume you will be able to alter anything else

Yup

altis · 12-01-2004, 11:34

I'm not sure about XP but for earlier versions of Windows the HDD letters are always consecutive by default. This means that, if you pop in another HDD, all the DVDs and other driver-based drives will shift up one place.

caveman · 12-01-2004, 11:35

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Originally Posted by Hector's House

I currently have one hdd, which xp sees as drive "C" and a dvd which is "D", if I add another hdd xp will assign it drive letter "E" (I think/assume). Can I change the drive letters so the 2nd hdd is "D" and the dvd is something else. I'm sure this is possible and if so how do I do it?

To my knowledge you can assign any letter to any drive except the dive which has the operating system on it, which must remain the same.
The way to do it is Contol Panel - Admin Tools - Computer Management - Disk Management - Right click, Change drive letters. Just assign Xand Y for example to the drives you want to change, and then reassign the way you want them.

Xaccers · 12-01-2004, 11:38

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Originally Posted by altis

I'm not sure about XP but for earlier versions of Windows the HDD letters are always consecutive by default. This means that, if you pop in another HDD, all the DVDs and other driver-based drives will shift up one place.

Sort of.
Assuming all hard drives have just 1 partition:

C: Primary master
D: Primary slave

Now put a drive in on Secondary master, and that becomes D: and D: becomes E:

Hector's House · 12-01-2004, 11:48

Thanks for the info, I knew there had to be a way, thanks again