Re: Changing Drive Letters



Right click My Computer, select Manage, Disk Management. You can change drive letters there.

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"Badbird" <Badbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:E7AC8943-C464-41BD-A180-84FA8D14FFFA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>I have two physical drives, which have been partitioned into three logical
> drives each. When I installed Windows XP the Drives were assigned thus:
>
> Drive 0: C, E, F
> Drive 1: D, G, H
>
> I would like to change the drive letters to:
>
> Drive 0: C, D, E
> Drive 1: F, G, H
>
> How can I accomplish this, and are there any problems I should be aware of
> first? I've installed all my software on 'C' drive, and the only other thing
> I've done is to creat a pagefile on one of the other logical drives.
>
> Thank you for the help.
.



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