How do I change drive letter of a partition?

[alpineranger]

Here's my situation. In the beginning, I had two drives (one partition per). Before I did a clean install of windows (98se) on my main drive, I put all my documents and various things I wanted to keep on the second drive. Then, I partitioned my primary drive, and somehow ended up with this: cprimary drive, primary partition) Dsecondary drive) Eprimary drive, secondary partition). This was not much of a problem then, but I want to remove my second hd (it is too small and too noisy). Unfortunately, when I removed my secondary drive, none of my programs would run because they were referencing files on E drive, which no longer existed (cprimary partition), dsecondary partition), no second drive). I don't want to reinstall my programs again (because of the work required, it's tantamount to doing another clean install), and I can't think of any way of fixing all the links, so is there some way to force my second partition on E: and keep D: empty?

 

[emjem]

The bios assigns the drive letters and there isn't anything you can do about it that I know of. I'm not sure if this works but maybe if you put your CD Rom on the primary as the slave the bios will assign it as D.

 

[destroyerOfComputers]

In dos you could specify them but I am not sure how in winblows.

 

[emjem]

Huh, what dos command did that? I remember one that you could use to change the floppy drive letters, but don't remember hdd letter changes.

 

[BadThad]

emejm is correct. However, WinNT and Win2k will let you change drive letters from within the OS , but not the 9x core OSes. This is an interesting predicament, having been it myself. The path to which various programs point to the location of the install CD/other info can be stored in many places. Some keep it in the registry, some in *.ini files (bla), some in DAT files, etc. I would like to see anyones ideas on this.

All I could think to do is a manual fix as each problem crops up. Open a program and see if it chokes, then go hunting for the file/registry entry that contains the bad path and change it. Tedious.

 

[destroyerOfComputers]

of course it has been a long time for me, but I remember you could specify things in config.sys to set HD to whatever letters. You could specify first drive, last drive, and any particular letter. I am not sure what would happen if you did this in your config.sys with 95 but I believe it carried over into win3.1.

 

[Zab]

Check out this site, it may have what your looking for.

 

[BadThad]

Nice program...if one could actually download it. Access is forbidden....bla

 

[baldy]

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baldy