Drive letters changed
My PC has two hard drives and three optical drives. The two hard drives were C: and D:. The three optical drives were E:, F:, and G:. I also have a USB Iomega Zip drive that showed as H:. I recently had to re-install XP Home Edition and now my drive letters are all jumbled up. The two hard drives are now C: and F:. The three optical drives are now D:, E:, and G:. The Zip drive did not change.
It's not really a big deal but I'm curious. Can the drive letters be reassigned to their original states? I checked in Control Panel, especially in Admin. Tools and don't see any options to do this.
It's not really a big deal but I'm curious. Can the drive letters be reassigned to their original states? I checked in Control Panel, especially in Admin. Tools and don't see any options to do this.
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you dont have to. As you can manage it within the windows without installing uninstalling hardware.
by the way do not attemp to change the C: drives name as you will experience major problems.
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Smashing good advice!
Took me all of about 3 minutes and I'm back to the original config.
Increased points so all get 50.
BTW to garycase: I ordered a PCI USB adapter to see if that will solve my issue with the USB on the Win98SE PC.
Is BootIt going to disappear on me after the trial period? I certainly hope not. :)
Took me all of about 3 minutes and I'm back to the original config.
Increased points so all get 50.
BTW to garycase: I ordered a PCI USB adapter to see if that will solve my issue with the USB on the Win98SE PC.
Is BootIt going to disappear on me after the trial period? I certainly hope not. :)
Glad all's well => in a lot less time than the last question I helped you with :-)
I suspect the PCI USB v2 card will resolve the issue you were having.
I do not know if Boot-It will "disappear" after the trial period -- but I doubt it. Might "nag" you a bit :-)
(Nothing $35 won't fix)
By the way, since you reminded me of that issue -- is there any chance the flash drive you were trying to use is a "U3" drive? I'm not sure they will work at all on a '98SE PC (I know the U3 partition won't; I'm not sure if the other partition will work okay with '98SE or not).
I suspect the PCI USB v2 card will resolve the issue you were having.
I do not know if Boot-It will "disappear" after the trial period -- but I doubt it. Might "nag" you a bit :-)
(Nothing $35 won't fix)
By the way, since you reminded me of that issue -- is there any chance the flash drive you were trying to use is a "U3" drive? I'm not sure they will work at all on a '98SE PC (I know the U3 partition won't; I'm not sure if the other partition will work okay with '98SE or not).
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garycase;
Wow! You are EVERYWHERE on this site. I'm impressed.
My flash drive is made by PNY, called Attache`, 1 GB storage. I don't remember seeing anything about it being a U3 drive.
Wow! You are EVERYWHERE on this site. I'm impressed.
My flash drive is made by PNY, called Attache`, 1 GB storage. I don't remember seeing anything about it being a U3 drive.
If it doesn't say "U3" anywhere it's not a U3 drive. So you should be fine once you install the USB v2 card.
... and I'm not "everywhere" ==> I get a lot of e-mail, and when I'm at the computer (pretty often throughout the day) I'll usually check hardware, storage, and sometimes desktops or laptops to see if there are any interesting questions -- or questions I don't think have been answered in sufficient detail (such as this one). I don't chime in near as much as I did when I first started answering questions here last September, but I also haven't slowed down quite as much as I had intended. Feel free to send me a private note if you ever post a question you want me to look at -- a lot of the ones I participate in now are as a result of e-mail requests. ... and as I suspect you are aware, once I decide to help, I am pretty persistent at staying with the problem until it's resolved :-)
... and I'm not "everywhere" ==> I get a lot of e-mail, and when I'm at the computer (pretty often throughout the day) I'll usually check hardware, storage, and sometimes desktops or laptops to see if there are any interesting questions -- or questions I don't think have been answered in sufficient detail (such as this one). I don't chime in near as much as I did when I first started answering questions here last September, but I also haven't slowed down quite as much as I had intended. Feel free to send me a private note if you ever post a question you want me to look at -- a lot of the ones I participate in now are as a result of e-mail requests. ... and as I suspect you are aware, once I decide to help, I am pretty persistent at staying with the problem until it's resolved :-)
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Without a doubt!
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