drive letter and disk space questions

[VTECxtc]

thanx in advance!

just purchased that 80gb seagate hd from fry's!
i installed it with the program it came with (disk wizard) and it set up the hd as my F: drive.
before i had my IBM hd as C:, my plextor cdr as D:, and my cdrom as E:
is there any way i can change the drive letter of my seagate hard drive to D:?
i think the hard drive still works, just irks me having my second hard drive as F:! =P

and also... my IBM hd is supposed to be 45gb but my computer reads it as 43gb. my new seagate hd is supposed to be 80gb but my comp reads it as 74.5gb. whats the deal? im losing like 5 gigs here! someone please help...

 

[mee987]

What OS are you using? kinda need to know that to tell you how to change drive letters for drives.

And your HDD sizes are correct, the 80GB is unformatted capacity, formatted is always less.... plus HDD manufacturers define 1GB as 1,000,000,000 (1000x1000x1000) bytes when it is actually 1073741824 (1024x1024x1024) bytes. My 30.0GB drive shows up as 28.6GB, so nothing is wrong with your setup.

 

[VTECxtc]

thanx for the info mee

im currently using winXP professional

 

[mee987]

Excellent. Go to control panel->administrative tools->computer management then under storage choose disk management. From here you can right-click any drive and choose "change drive letter and paths". Just change your Plex CDR to F: and then use D: for the new HDD.