System Automatically Assings External Drive Letters
Mar 5, 2006
I've got three external USB hard drives(connected thru a hub) and two thumb drives that I use nearly every day for backup and transfers. Every time I fire one up, the system assigns whatever drive letter it feels like at the time. I have to go to Computer Management and change the letter in order for my sync programs to work on that drive. Short of setting the letters and leaving all the drives run, is there a way to get 2000 to remember each drive and it's correct drive letter after they are shut down?
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Oct 31, 2007
my old boot drive was g: .. i followed this guide here and changed it to c:upon restarting .. the system doesn't load up .. it gets stuck on the Welcome screen and that's it .. am i screwed?
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Feb 23, 2009
I turned the PC off to reboot when I though I was going into safe mode and went into regular mode instead. Now, it thinks one of my external drives is the C drive. On boot, I am getting a message that it cannot recognize find the system 32 windows config file (I'm paraphrasing).
I used the repair utility to get to the C prompt (which is pointed at the external drive) and checked the drive letters. I don't think the PC bios knows the hard drive is there.
I tried going into setup and reverting to factory installed configuration and that didn't change anything. I could not get it to recognize the hard drive.
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Mar 18, 2006
I'm connecting a 30GB Travelstar Hard Drive via an external USB 2.0 case to my Thinkpad T40 with Windows XP (pro). Windows immediately recognized it. However, the hard drive does not show up under Windows Explorer. I can go into Device Manager, click on Disk Drives, and it does show the new drive there (along with my main hard drive, which is a 80 GB hard drive).
I cannot figure out how to make it show up in Windows Explorer with an Drive Letter assigned to it and thus, how to actually use it.
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May 11, 2007
My USB External Hard Drive suddenly decided to stop working monday before last, it is weird, like it will turn on and all, but it doesnt get recognized and while its on none of my programs will load like Ventrilo and games(ventrillo will half load but not all the way) and the computer wont shutdown while its on. but the moment i turn it off they all start running smoothly agian and the computer will shutdown immediatly (if i am at the shutdown screen). Any idea why/how this happened and how to fix it?
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Dec 23, 2005
I want to back up my entire system to an external harddrive and then reinstall windows on the internal one.My question is can I use a program to put programs back on to the internal drive from the external harddrive. I heard ghost copies everything even registry is this true?
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Jan 7, 2007
quality of AcomData External HD? Also, is this a well established company? Any info as to how this brand compares to a Seagate External HD?
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Aug 8, 2005
Running Windows XP home, well-protected from viruses and spyware with all the usual recommended programs. I have a 160G external firewire hard drive, NTFS system. Cannot access data all of a sudden, I am getting an error message, "file system corrupt and unreadable." In disk management, the drive is listed as healthy, 160G, but no NTFS listed. What could have caused this, and is there a way to retrieve the data? Are there any low-cost or freeware programs to do this, or is it inevitable to spend a "fortune?"
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Aug 10, 2009
Well like alot of people I made the mistake of selecting safeboot in the boot.ini file in the msconfig file after my comp got a virus and would not boot into safemode. The hard drive is in two partitions: the C drive used to contain windows, and the D drive which has the data i am trying to save. I don't have a Windows XP disc because it was already on the comp when i bought it. I have attempted to restore the windows files with Bart PE bootup image disc but it wiped out Windows XP completely from the C drive in the process, but the Data drive is still showing up with all its files intact.
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Apr 28, 2006
I am on the road and trying to do a system restore. I use an external hard drive in my office but I do not have the external hard drive with me now. I can not get the restore to complete and I can not get the undo to fully complete. Is this not working fully because I am not hooked up to my external hard drive? When I initiated the restore it asked something about the external hard drive.
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Dec 29, 2006
An external hard drive. When it is on & I try to boot,I get the following error : Invalid system disk Replace the disk, and then press any key I then have to turn off the external & press any key to get it to boot. Is there a way that I can boot with that external turned on. Some setting I need to change perhaps? I have an E-Machines computer about 2 years old.
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May 29, 2006
After reformating my pc, my secondary hard drive is now designated as drive "D". Before the reformat it was drive "G". I have software that needs to get data from drive "G" but the drive is not designated as "G" any longer. I can't remember how to reassign the drive letters so that I can designate the secondary drive as "G".
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Jun 24, 2005
Correct me if I'm wrong but I was under the impression that hard drive letters were assigned each time the machine booted up & only c & d were reserved for the operating system & CD/DVD drive & if the number of drives altered from one boot up to the next these letters could change. The reason hat I ask is that I changed an internal drive which had several partitions on it only to find that this drive isn't recognized, but even though it isn't recognized by My Computer or disk management the other partition are labeled as if this were listed.I now don't have a an 'e' & 'g' drive listed. But I do have a 'J' & 'k' listed. Where is my other drive 'e' & 'g' & how do I get to use the data on them.
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Jan 4, 2007
Hardware:
IDE drive; SATA drive; misc USB drives and card readers p4 (2G) Foxcon board (w/ SATA support); 2G Ram...
Software:
XP Pro SP2; Partition Magic 8; (& misc apps)
I bit the bullet and reformatted my hard drive after problems with a corrupted W98 partition. (My testimonial to XP is that w/ W98 I did this sometimes twice a year or more; I've run XP without having to re-format for over two years.)
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Dec 15, 2004
I have no idea why but I have an issue where my brother's computer after a clean install of XP from 98 exchanged ID letters. Drive "C" is now "F" and the Zip drive is now "C". It may have been something to do with SP2 which I removed. Windows won't allow me to change the hard drive back to "C" even after I made it available by designating the Zip as "H". Trying in Safe mode did not allow the change, nor did Partition Magic change it. "C" was added to the name but I could not change it from "F". I already started over and reinstalled XP but it still came up "F" as the hard drive. Things work after the second install where the drives quit after the first half-way into re-loading programs. Now it is just a pathway issue. What else can I do short of starting all over? Is there a way to change the hard drive designation? Any help would be appreciated
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Sep 13, 2009
I just bought a WD 1 TB to replace 120 GB slave (it was 'c:') I had. I intended to still use it as a slave and keep my 320 GB (it was 'd:') as the master. They're both SATA's so of course that doesn't matter so I just kept the 320 set as the primary in BIOS.At first boot up the computer started fine but when it started Windows the previous devices hadn't been loaded and I was asked to register again before starting. I re-registered and clearly all the previous settings are gone
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Feb 10, 2007
Can you reassign a drive letters to a second hard drive, cd/dvd drive? I seem to remember something about that in XP but can not recall what it was I read.
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Aug 1, 2005
At work we have so many network drives and in a recent upgrade to xp, the drive letters are showing up at the very end of the drive description. In certain applications, you only get to see a short portion of the beginning of the drive info and with the complex naming schemes we have, it is difficult to remember what's what and hard to tell the difference with just the beginning showing. It's very easy to remember what we've designated as K or N or P for example. Any way to switch these letters back to the beginning?
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Dec 3, 2006
I'm trying to play Diablo II: LoD, which requires that the LoD expansion CD be in my CDROM drive. I mounted an image of the disc with Daemon such that it's in (virtual) Drive E: (normal CDROM drive is D:[b][/b]). But the game seems to only be checking my D: Drive for the disc, and it won't let me point to the E: Drive.
Is there a way to just switch the drive letters around, and if so, do you think this would even solve my problem? Perhaps there's a way I can just set E: as my default CDROM drive, so that the game would check there?
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Aug 4, 2005
I recently had to reinstall windows XP to get rid of spyware. When I restarted windows, I noticed that my drive letters were not right. For instance,my hard drive is letter (H) instead of C. My floppy drive is correct (A). How do I change the letter back to C for my hard drive?
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Jun 3, 2008
I created a new partition and installed Windows on it a while back, but when I booted up, it had the letter G and my other partition that I used to store music was drive C.I was going to change drive letters around so that my OS was on drive C, but I was wandering if this would mess up any applications I have on the system?
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Jan 30, 2005
i feel that this is probley simple... but I don't know how to do it. I've right clicked directly on the dvd-player to see if I could change it and nothing is there. My dad has a dvd-player F: and a cd-rom drive E:, His computer was formatted recently, but now the software for each of the drives are mixed up. Putting a dvd in drive F:, tells us that drive E: does not contain a disk.I would like to just change the drive letters back to how it wants to be set-up.
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Feb 15, 2008
After a reconfiguration of boot loader in suse Linux two of my drives swapped their drive letters in WINDOWS XP SP2 (weird) now i can not reassign the drive letters as the disk management utility in control panel fails to start and gives error " service execution failed".so can u suggest any third party windows based software for achieving the task i have searched the internet and found nothing
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Nov 29, 2008
My main pair of raid drives crashed and burned. So I installed XP on my second pair of raided disks and recovered the data from the first pair. But now my boot/o-s disk is D and my drive is C.Any tools I can use to change drive letters around and move boot information and such automatically?
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Jul 16, 2005
My CD rom is showing up as Drive D: and my second drive partition is showing up as Drive E:. I want to switch them so the CD rom is always the last drive letter.
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Aug 6, 2005
I have 2 USB hard drives which i use for storage. I have a backup program which automatically backs up my mp3s and digital camera pictures.When i plug in the USB hard drives they show up as C (80Gb HD) and D problem is that if my digital camera is plugged into my USB port before any of the USB hard drives are plugged in, the digital camera then takes up Drive Letter 'C'. Then if i plug my USB Hard Drives in they now become D and E. See my problem ?? The backup program no longer recognises that the USB hard drives have moved up a letter and so won't back up until i restart with only the USB hard drives in tomake them C and D again. So my question is, how do i force WinXP to make sure that my 80Gb HD is the only thing to ever be allocated 'C', and my 160Gb HD is the only thing to ever be allocated the letter 'D' ?. i.e. I want to make WinXP automatically recognize which HD i am plugging in and always allocate it the Drive Letteri want?
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Aug 26, 2005
I've got the following drive letter configuration on my PC . C to G, local drives H to K, network drives (essentially data on a server)I've now got a PDA that connects to my PC via USB. However, when connected it seems to go for the next consecutive local drive letter (ie H) - even though H is already allocated to a network drive.Is there a way I can allocate a permanent drive letter to the PDA (eg L)even though the PDA isn't always connected and may be connected/disconnected whilst the PC is running.
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Nov 12, 2006
I'm running xp, and my c drive has now become c,f and g.when checking in disk management, there are no volume labels assigned. In Disk 0, it shows the three partitions (I've no clue why there are 3, is that standard?)39 MB FAT, 69.81 GB NTFS, and 4.64 GB FAT32.This happened after a failed software install that dell refused to help with (there's a shocker)It's just an annoyance, nothing more, but I would like to get it back to being just the c drive without risking losing anything in the process. Something I can do safely or just live with it?
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Apr 18, 2007
I have a second hard drive and recently my system began to assign it an extra drive letter. That is, when I go to My Computer I see it twice with different letters. This began after I installed a DVD burner and had not happened before that time. The burner and hard drive share the Secondary IDE Channel, with the burner as master. I tried CS, with the same results. Due to the configuration inside I cannot put the hard drive on the Primary IDE Channel with the main hard drive. I can still access the drive and use it normally, but I would like to get rid of the second occurrence. I even tried reformatting it, giving it a different volume name, unplugging it and booting the system, then plugging it back up and booting again. Now I have 2 drives with the new volume name. Can anyone tell me why this happened and what I can do about it?
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Nov 1, 2007
I have an external hard drive that I use quite often. Recently after I restarted my computer, all the partitions on my main hard drive were assigned a drive letter and my external's drive letter was bumped from F: to J: So now F: is set to the 47MB partition built-in to Dells and I can't change its letter assignment because in Disk Management it doesn't give me that option! I can change my external's drive letter easily I just need F: to be available again.
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Jan 11, 2005
A friend has a 200G hard drive partitioned into two sections, no OS on it. The drive doesn't show up in disk management but does in System/hardware. Can't get anything off of it, XP won't read it. Does anyone have any ideas please? He's got 12 mb free on one partition and 7 mb free on the other but the drive just doesn't show up in XP. Thanks in advance for any help on this one. I have the same set up so I'm kinda worried and would like to know any ideas just in case for future reference
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