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by qwest212

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When I change a drive to be accessed by a different letter, let's say from D:\ to T:\, even after a restart, D:\ is still not available. I have two drives, 250g boot drive with 2 equally sized partitions, and a 120g storage drive with another 2 equally sized partitions. My Device Manager now shows this:

Disk 0: [C:][I:]
Disk 1: [T:][U:]

And drives F, G, H, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, and Q are all taken up by various types of removable storage and virtual drives.

I want I:\ on Disk0 to be D:\, but when I access the change letter path dialog, I: is the lowest drive letter listed.

Yes, I have restarted my computer, nothing else should be taking up that path.

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by rob miners

Especially this part.
Before you modify drive-letter assignments, note the following items: ? Changing the drive letter of the system volume or the boot volume is not a built-in feature of the Disk Management snap-in.
? Many MS-DOS-based and Microsoft Windows-based programs refer to specific drive letters for environmental or other variables. If you modify the drive letter, these programs may not function correctly.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307844

by andre.dierick

Based upon the fact that you state that there are numerous virtual and removable storage devices I assume that you every now and then plug and unplug those devices. Maybe your D: drive letter is assigned to one of those devices. So try the following: go to Config management, choose system, look for hardware tab and then Device management. On the menues there is a posiibillity to show "hidden devices". Uninstall all hidden disk drives (grayed out a bit) and restart the PC. I expect that you now can rename to D:. To clean up completely I would remove the virtual disks as well and re-install them.
You have to look for the exact naming of tabs and menues: I've only access to PC's with the Dutch version of XP.
Succes, greetings trom the Netherlands,
Andr?

by shres58tha

open the computer manage
go to device manager
DSisble all the cd/dvd drives
also all virtual drives
then go to disk manage
change the letter of drive u want
ola it will be done

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