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Query: Program to reassign Drive letters after removing second harddrive?
Craig wrote:
A few years ago I installed a larger hard drive as Primary master and partitioned it as C,E,F,G. You must have made one primary partition, and created three logical drives in an extended partition. They became E,F,G, since the slave drive had a primary partition on it, and became D. I kept the old drive as a Slave (handy for backing up data). At the time the Slave drive assigned it self as the D drive. This meant it had a single primary partition on it, as it would if it were used as the boot drive (C, previously. Now the old drive has finally failed and my E,F,G partitions have moved up the ladder to become D,E,F. That's because Windows doesn't find another primary partition to call D. Here's my question: is there a program that can update all the registry and shortcut entries so that they now point to the newly allocated partitions? Don't know of any. There are programs to re-name drives, so the old associations still work. Buy an inexpensive drive, partition it as a single primary partition, and install it as slave. It will become "D:" and your programs, etc. will be OK again. You'll also have a spare drive again! Virg Wall -- A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow droughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely, sobers us again. --- Alexander Pope |
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