Re-assign drive letters

[mjdart]

I have a PCI Express MOBO with 1 80 GB SATA HD. I also have a DVD & a CD/RW. They're assigned drive letters c - d - e. I next installed a PCI ATA 133 controller. To that I hooked up 2 more IDE hard drives. Win XP assigned them letters f - g. I would like the hard drives to be C D E and the removable media drives to be F & G. It seems like I should be able to do this fairly easily.

MS has a blurb on their web site to open Computer Management and I can right click on a partition, logical drive or volumne and then click change the drive letter.

This is Under Start - Control Panel - Perfomance & Maintenance - Administrative Tools - Computer Management.

Anybody done this? I'm at work all day and all we have is Win2000 and I don't have Admin rights to test

 

[bsobel]

Your posting to ask if the directions you received are correct because you haven't tried yet. Yes, they are correct.

 

[Basie]

From my understanding you can do that fairly easily. All drives except the C: or system drive.

 

[mjdart]

Yes I can't try it yet and I wanted confrimation it should work.

Thanks it sounds easy enough. I'm thinking I'll assign the removable media drives something like H & I assign the HD's the D & E letters I would then come back and re-assign the removable media drives the F & G I want. Does that sound right.

 

[ShellGuy]

Just make sure that you don't change the drive letters of important stuff. Because it may not change the linking in windows.

Will G.

 

[mjdart]

Yes if program is installed I guess it would be lost when you try to run it. I just got home and tried it extremely easy. Just remeber to put a disc in the DVD and/or CD/RW drives or Windows doesn't see the drive properly to allow the change

 

[Anubis]

it works fine, i have teh same IDE ard and have had to do the same thing more then once, you wont have any issues

actually this last timei just left my HD as H because i was too lazy to make it F