Re: Drive Letters??

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Go to Start/Run and type diskmgmt.msc Click OK.

In Disk Management, right click the current E drive and select "Change drive letters and paths". Change the drive letter to D.

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Ronnie Vernon
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User


"nick" <nick@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:Tyvug.3698$A8.565@xxxxxxxxxxx
Don't know when this happened, but ... on my wife's
machine, the single Maxstor hard drive with two partitions,
no longer has a C: and a D: drive. Now it has a C: and an E: drive.

What would cause that change??

Then when I attach a second drive, with one partition, it becomes
the D: drive.

This all really plays hob with disk assignments for certain
applications.

chuck
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