Re: Mapping hard drives?


"Bobbie Leslie" <bleslie3@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> I built up a machine with a couple of 40gig hard drives when that was
> the average and later on added a 120gig drive for ripping songs and
> movies to. The problem is I have several USB devices and they each
> take a drive number whether plugged in or not so my 120gig drive came
> out to be drive O, as in the alphabet. The original hard drives were
> partitioned into two 20gig drives C:, D:, E: and F:. Before Windows XP
> came out I had WindowsME on the C: drive and just left it there and
> installed XP to drive E:. Now, on occasion, drive O will show up under
> My Computer and sometimes it won't. I think the problem is because the
> first two drives are SATA and the 120gig drive is not. How can I get
> that sucker mapped or whatever so I can see it and use it all the
> time. One thought is I'd love to transfer WindowsXP to it and map it
> as drive E:. Any help appreciated.
> Bob

Run regedit.exe and navigate to HKLM\SYSTEM\MountedDevices.
Now delete all values such as \DosDevices\X: where X: is a drive
letter higher than C:.

Reboot your machine without any USB devices. Your 120 GByte
hard disk will now be drive D: and it will remain on this letter even
when plugging in USB devices.


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