Changing drive letters in XP
When you add
drives to your computer, such as an extra hard
drive, a CD drive, or a storage device that
corresponds to a drive, Windows automatically
assigns letters to the drives. However, this
assignment might not suit your system; for
example, you might have mapped a network drive
to the same letter that Windows assigns to a new
drive. When you want to change drive letters,
follow these steps:
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Right-click My
Computer, and then click Manage.
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Under Computer
Management, click Disk Management. In the
right pane, you’ll see your drives listed.
CD-ROM drives are listed at the bottom of
the pane.
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Right-click
the drive or device you want to change, and
then click Change Drive Letter and Paths.
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Click Change,
click Assign the following drive letter,
click the drive letter you want to assign,
and then click OK.
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You will not be
able to change the boot or system drive letter
in this manner. Many MS-DOS-based and
Windows-based programs make references to a
specific drive letter (for example, environment
variables). If you modify the drive letter,
these programs may not function correctly.
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