Possible change drive letter assignments in winme/9x?

[Xe0n]

I run a dual boot of winme and win2k, recentally using partition magic i took 8 gig from my 45 gig drive and made it its own partition using partition magic. I have 3 hard drives, a 15 gig primary ide master, a 45 gig primary ide slave, and a 2gig ext scsi drive that i use as a portable drive. When i finishe partitioning, it assigned the new partition to f:, however i would likle it to be e:, before the scsi drive. This was simple to fix in win2k by going into disk management, however is there any way to do this in windows me?

 

[madthumbs]

It's in the device manager, go into the properties/ settings for the drives you want to change.

 

[dcdomain]

I'm having trouble finding it... can you be more specific? Under device manager, I went to my harddrives and chose properties. I don't see anything under any of the tabs for changing the drive letters.

In addition, what happens to the programs installed on the drive? For example, my Win2K boot drive is drive E, the WinME boot drive is C. I'd like to make the Win2K boot drive drive D. Will that be problematic for any programs I have installed?

 

[Xe0n]

well, now i think ill be reformatting again because winme alwasy crashes the second it starts after i restarted and win2k give me a error saying inaccessable boot device...

dcdomain: if you have partition magic, use the utility called drive mapper, it will go through all your files and rerefrence them to the correct drive, like you can tell it make everything that was c to d

 

[Xe0n]

well anyways, i dont know if it will let you change drive letters for hard drives, even after i reformatted i just wanted to check, but its grayed out, because in 9x it puts my scsi cdrw before my ide dvd, which i want first, but the reformat fixed it

my philosophy: if its broken just reformat, that fixes everything

 

[Radboy]

Can change drive letters for your CDROMs, burners, Zips, but it not so easy with hard drives. Think I heard that Partition Magic will let you do this .. or maybe something in W2K .. but I forget, and I've never done it myself.

One trick is, when adding a new drive, make *no* primary partitions .. make everything extended/logical .. cuz it's the primary partitions that get drive letters assigned b4 ext/logical drives .. which can cause your existing (ext/logocal) drive letters to change.

I have thus adopted the policy to upgrade my boot drive anytime I have to install my OS/apps from the ground up. So much easier to set it up right the first time, than change it in the middle (if u have lots of apps).

 

[Xe0n]

ya it is possible in win2k, but it doesnt effect winme, this time im trying something different instead of my usual 3 partitions over 3 hard drives, im gonna have 6 partitions over 3 hard drives (1 for each os, one for apps, one for games, one for data, one for backup stuff) and see how this works, if i can keep myself organized and not end up installing stuff on c:\program files

 

[madthumbs]

On the desktop, Rigt click on *my computer*, choose *properties*. There you will see the device manager tab, and can make adjustments from there. This will alert you to hardware conflicts as well that may be causing your crashes.

 

[Xe0n]

i know how to do it, but you cant with hard drives, i think the thing causing my problems was having winme and win2k on the same hard drive, so they may have been overwriting each other's files