Physical drive letters

imgod2u

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Is there any way to change the partition letter of a certain drive in Windows 2000? I ask this because I want my SCSI drive to be c, my IDE HD to be D, and my DVD-ROM and CDRW to be E and F. However, Windows 2000 always recognizes the IDE drive to be C during the installation even though I've partitioned the SCSI drive as C. The result is I've had to disconnect my IDE drive, then plug it in after installation. However, this leaves my IDE drive to be F instead of D like I want, is there any way in Windows 2000 to change the drive letters?
 

FOBSIDE

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START -> SETTINGS -> CONTROL PANEL -> ADMINISTRATIVE TOOLS -> COMPUTER MANAGEMENT -> DISK MANAGEMENT

here you should be able to right click on any of the drives and select CHANGE DRIVE LETTER AND PATH
 

SUOrangeman

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But you can't change the letter on system and boot volumes. Be careful.

If you want the SCSI drive as C:, I think you'll have to do that in BIOS.

-SUO
 

setaanbomb

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You can change the drive letters of Boot and System Volumes. There is a MS Knowledgebase article on how to do this, but I don't feel like searching for it. Basically you change the drive letters through the registry and move around the ntldr, boot.ini to the proper partitions.