Hard Drive Letters

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jivrajaman

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Hey guys, I recently formatted my harddrive, and I have 2 harddrives, but one of them has 3 different partitions.. and the other harddrive is my main Windows harddrive. After i formatted, all of the drive letters are scrwed up, and now my main Windows ahrddrive is G:.. so it makes it confusing when i install programs and I;m used to the way it used to be, how can I change the letter from G: to C: like normal computers?
Thanks
aman
 
That's very odd...never heard of a computer doing that... You must of really messed something up O.o

Hehe, well look in computer management(rightlick my computer, manage) and go to disk management. Rightclick on the drives and change drive letter. That should help ya...
 
THanks alot, that worked.. but the problem is that it wont let me change my main windows drive, because its the system drive so i cant change it to c, do you know any way to do it outside of windows, in command prompt?
Thanks
aman
 
Hehe a really quick and dirty solution would be to make a shared drive, (C:) and map it to the real drive (G:) :P You shouldnt be able to adjust the OS letter while its running 'live' (from within windows). Something like partition magic might be able to pull it off tho
 
oddly enough, i had this problem as well. i know for a fact that when i setup my partitions on both HDD's, i did it correctly. i have a 60gig and 160gig. the 60 gig i only setup a single partition and primarily use that as my system drive. As for the 160gig, normally i partition that two ways, half and half. Somehow, my system partition ended up being E: On my 160gig, it created 3 partitions and had 26 gigs of unpartitioned space. Any ideas?
 
There is no way to actually change the main drive letter back to C: without messing stuff up, Windows dowsn't allow that. What you should do is disconnect your secondary drive, format your primary drive, remove the secondary and install Windows, once its done just put the secondary drive back in and it should be good.
 
norton partition magic can create, delete, merge, ect to partitions, you might be able to change the drive name there.
 
Thanks for the suggestions. I havent run into any issues as of yet but is anyone aware of why/how this happened?
 
Actually, i reformatted my computer today and i forgot that i had my 40GB IDE har drive installed. And without thinking too much about it, once windows was installed, it turned out that the IDE was set as C: and the SATA was set as D:. And i was planning to use the IDE for backup only, since its much lower capacity, and i believe its only 5400rpm. I do remember though, when i unplugged it or something, the drive went back to C:, but im not sure about partitions.
 
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