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by michelle.morland 1 view

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Hi,

My laptop came with one harddisk and a DVD drive. These were initially C and D drives.

I later used a partition software and made 3 partitions out of my single harddisk. I meant to have these as C:\ (original drive), D:\, and E:\ Drives. I wanted the DVD drive to become the F:\ drive...

However after booting I have the drives in the following order:

C:\
D:\ DVD drive
E:\ (what I wanted/meant to be the D drive)
F:\ (what I wanted/meant to be the E drive)

How can I change the oder/visible sequence of drives as per my requirements? Will be grateful for your help.

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by mjd420nova

Somewhere in the instructions for the partition software is the point where you'll be allowed to chose the drive sequence.

by thechas

Unlike previous versions of Windows, XP (I assume this is XP) assigns drive letters in the order the drives are defined. Not the hierarchical order the older versions of Windows used.

To change your drive letter assignments, open Administrative Tools from either the start menu, or Control Panel.

Open Computer Management.

Under storage, select Disk Management.

You should start by changing the drive letter for your DVD drive making it a higher letter than you need to such as H:

Right click on the DVD drive (which may be listed as CD-ROM 0) and select change drive letters and paths.
You can change the drive letter to any letter that is not used or reserved.

Repeat the process for your 2 partitions / logical drives.

Sometimes, you need to reboot to free up letters that were previously assigned to an active drive.

Chas

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