[SOLVED] Help Me =]

Charge · 10-04-2008, 07:39 AM

I have had a ext hdd connected for ages, and thats where all my music and programs are installed. I put in a pen drive and turned off the computer while i was out. When i turned it back on, my original hdd, usually F drive had changed to the G drive.. and my pen drive taking over F. Now none of my music works in the zune software, and all my links to programs dont work. I know i can just change them and reroute where zune finds my music. But i dont want to do that. Ive disconnected the pen drive and restarted and t still comes up as drive G. Any way of changing it back to F?

Its annoying me and i cant be bothered to change everything

Thanks in advance

Azu-nyan · 10-04-2008, 07:40 AM

I know that there's a way to do it in XP if you've got that, but I can't remember how. >.< But a solution exists.

Charge · 10-04-2008, 07:41 AM

im on vista..
its happened so many times i just cant be bothered to change everything!

You know how it is..

Gow · 10-04-2008, 07:47 AM

Luckily you are on Vista, XP is more of a pain in this issue but it can be mitigated by an installed program, Partition Magic. Vista, however, has that covered with components built into it. Disconnect the pen drive and boot it up, do it this way so you can move G to F without anything present, then boot with the Pen drive and it should switch over to G.

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Change Your Drive�s Letter In Vista
Thursday, November 23rd, 2006
by Diana Huggins

In Vista, you can use the Disk Management console to manage the drives on your computer. One of the things you may want to do at some point is change the drive letter assignments. You can assign any letter between C and Z to a hard disk drive while letters A and B are reserved for floppy disk drives.

To access the Disk Management console, right click Computer and select Manage. Under Storage, click Disk Management. The drive configuration of your computer will be displayed in the details pane. You can change the drive letter by right clicking any volume and selecting Change Drive Letter and Paths. Click the Change button and use the drop down arrow to select the drive letter you want to assign to the volume. Click OK. Click Yes to confirm your actions.

Two points you must keep in mind when performing this procedure. You cannot change the drive letter assigned to the boot or system partition using this method. Second, some programs may refer to specific drive letters for environmental variables. Changing the drive letters may result in such programs not functioning correctly.

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