Assigning drive letters
 

I am currently using a Western Digital 20gig hard drive and I'm upgrading to
a Western Digital 80 gig. I run XP Pro. I have installed a zip drive, a cd
burner, a cd rom, and floppy. These devices are assigned their appropriate
drive letter with the hard drive being local c as it should. I unplug the 20
gig, plug in the 80 gig using the the same jumper settings and window OS,
and it finds the hard drive as local h, and the others mixed. How do I fix
this?
Thanks,

Re: Assigning drive letters
 

"Blaze" <mgctoona@verizon.net> wrote in message
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>I am currently using a Western Digital 20gig hard drive and I'm upgrading
>to a Western Digital 80 gig. I run XP Pro. I have installed a zip drive, a
>cd burner, a cd rom, and floppy. These devices are assigned their
>appropriate drive letter with the hard drive being local c as it should. I
>unplug the 20 gig, plug in the 80 gig using the the same jumper settings
>and window OS, and it finds the hard drive as local h, and the others
>mixed. How do I fix this?
> Thanks,
Rt click on my computer, Manage\Disc management and reassign drive letters
to what you want. If the 80 is your new C: you might have to move one of the
others out of the way (reassign it`s drive letter). Bear in mind these
changes are recorded in the registry.
best wishes..J

Re: Assigning drive letters
 

Thanks for the reply. I'll give that a try.

"old jon" <ImNotIn@ntlworld.com.invalid> wrote in message
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>
> "Blaze" <mgctoona@verizon.net> wrote in message
> news:HIxue.4937$PZ6.2766@trndny08...
>>I am currently using a Western Digital 20gig hard drive and I'm upgrading
>>to a Western Digital 80 gig. I run XP Pro. I have installed a zip drive, a
>>cd burner, a cd rom, and floppy. These devices are assigned their
>>appropriate drive letter with the hard drive being local c as it should. I
>>unplug the 20 gig, plug in the 80 gig using the the same jumper settings
>>and window OS, and it finds the hard drive as local h, and the others
>>mixed. How do I fix this?
>> Thanks,
> Rt click on my computer, Manage\Disc management and reassign drive letters
> to what you want. If the 80 is your new C: you might have to move one of
> the others out of the way (reassign it`s drive letter). Bear in mind these
> changes are recorded in the registry.
> best wishes..J
>

Re: Assigning drive letters
 

Blaze wrote:

> I am currently using a Western Digital 20gig hard drive and I'm upgrading
> to a Western Digital 80 gig. I run XP Pro. I have installed a zip drive, a
> cd burner, a cd rom, and floppy. These devices are assigned their
> appropriate drive letter with the hard drive being local c as it should. I
> unplug the 20 gig, plug in the 80 gig using the the same jumper settings
> and window OS, and it finds the hard drive as local h, and the others
> mixed. How do I fix this?

You cannot transfer a running OS to another harddrive. Use ghost, driveimage
or a knoppix cd and "dd", later on windows drive manager to partition the
remainder of your drive.
If you just want to add the drive, you can as well use the drive management
tool to assign your drive letters (rightclick on a partition/device and
chose the obvious).

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