How to force drive assignment changes in Win2K???

[Dulanic]

I just installed a new HD which I want to be C: and my old one to be D: unfortunetely Win2K doesnt let you force drive letters, and moving the HDs around on the controllers also doesnt work. So right now Im booting off D: which is annoying to me. Does anyone know a way to force Win2K to switch these 2 drive letters around?

 

[syf3r]

admin tools \ computer management \ disk management
right-click on a drive and select 'change drive letter and path'

-syf3r.

 

[Floyd]

syf3r's method is correct, but it's a little more convoluted when attempting to swap boot devices. Give the Disk Management a try first, but you'll probably have to head to the MS Knowledgebase and do a search on the topic. Of course I don't know your specific setup, but you'll probably have to place the NT boot sector onto your new drive to make it work.

Best regards,
Floyd

 

[Rick25]

You need to hack the registry. Had the same problem the other week when I switched drives. The disk management in the MMC won't let you change boot or system drive letters.

Start regedit. Go to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE>SYSTEM>MOUNTEDDRIVES

At the botton will be the list of Dos devices with the assigned drive letter. Right click on the Name and select rename. Change the drive letter to whatever you want. You'll probably have to rename C to E, then D to C and finally E to D. Once that's done simply reboot and the drive letters should be fine. Worked great with my 6 partitions. Would recommend that you write out the order you have to change drive letters before you start.

 

[syf3r]

ah, ok.. i missed the part about the boot drive being lettered as d:
are you saying that windows is installing itself on the d: drive without asking you? i seem to remember having had this problem and i think the easiest solution at the time was simply to remove the other drive completely (i.e. disconnect it from the ide chain), install 2k, then add the second hard drive back again... 🙂

-syf3r.