Changing a drive letter?

[Moonbeam]

I installed a game on one drive and want to play on another, but the machine wants to find the game on the original drive. You guys suggested changing the drive letter in the registery with regedit, but I don't know where in the registry to look for the it. I also found this on the net:

You can change the drive letter of a CD-ROM drive by performing the following steps:

1.Click Start, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel.

2.Double-click the System icon, and then click the Device Manager tab.

3.Click the CD-ROM drive you want to change, and then click the Properties button.

4.Click the Settings tab.

5.In the Reserved Drive Letters section, set Start Drive Letter and End Drive Letter to the drive letter you want the
CD-ROM drive to use. Click OK until you return to Control Panel.

6.Restart the computer.

How should I do this? If i need to go into the registry, can anybody say where to look in there. I'm running Win95SE

Thanks

 

[interchange]

The best idea is to use Edit->Find and search for the name of the game you are changing to look for the registry keys to search. Depending on how long your current format has been going, this may take a while (Windows likes to keep registry keys that are old as a working history, and some programs don't uninstall very well so you can get lingering keys).

 

[Biggs]

Or you can reinstall the game with the appropriate drive letter.

 

[TheCorm]

You can change the drive letter of a cd rom, no problem, just change the start drive letter assignemtn to what you want it to be, you cannot however change a hard drive letter assignment.

Your best bet is to either move the program over yourself to the other drive and change the shortcuts in the menu (properties) or easier way, re-install.

Corm

 

[Wallysaurus]

Moonbeam,
There used to be a utility on IBM's site that did pretty much did the same job as Powerquest's Drive Mapper. Since you have an IBM drive go to their site and see if it is still available. Also, if you have access to Partition Magic, Drive Mapper is part of that package.

 

[Moonbeam]

Kinda looks like uninstall reinstall is gonna be the easiest way after all. Oh well. Thanks guys, I don't think I know enough to try some of the alternates.

 

[Ausm]

run--->regedit-->modify the appropriate keys for the game


good Luck


Ausm

 

[Moonbeam]

ausm, where are the appropriate keys? How do you find them? I'm guessing you mean to do what interchange is saying, but how do you actually run 'Edit Find'. I don't understand that.