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[wylde]

my setup...

4 hdd's - 7 partitions

2 drives through ide and 2 through a raid card..

the cd is the secondary slave in ide - the 2 other drives on raid are listed after the ide drives..

my drives run in the following order - a, c, d, e, f (cd), g, h, i, j.

how can i change the F: drive (CD) to J: ?

apart from putting the cd on the raid card... can it be done?

[snufalufagus]

It depends on your operating system. Assuming you have Windows 2000 or Windows XP go to the Administrative tools via the control panel and then to the Computer Managerment window

Once there go to the Disk Management tab and right click and you'll see the option to change drive letter and/or path ...

Very simple

You many have to change them many times to get them in the order you want them since the drive letter will not show up unless it's not in use; so drop one to the Z drive or something then start manipulating

Remember that anything pointing to that drive letter will now no find what it needs, but that usually isn't an issue

[shawner88]

Just curious...why so many partitions?

[wylde]

thanks snuf.. i'll give it a try and let you know how i go.

shawn - well... c drive is 35 gig, just enough to hold the os and any current incomplete d/ls that i have running... this is so that if i get any problems with the operating system i can easily format the os and not lose other data.

d drive is 120 gig for movies

e drive is 55 gig for tunes and movies

f cd

g drive is 27 gig just enough to hold all the friends episodes

h drive is 37 gig just enough to hold all the imax movies

i drive is 63 gig for more movies

j drive is 33 gig just enough to hold all the simpsons episodes

i have 400 gig of hdd but i seem to lose a lot when they are partitioned

[Demophobe]

Sounds like a nice organized setup wylde.

Personally, I wouldn't keep those d/loads on the same partition as the OS. I have the same incomplete d/loads running, but have found them to seriously frag up a hard drive fast. This of course, adversely affects overall system performance.

I also keep the paging file on my "utility" partition, as opposed to the OS one.

I use a small 6 GB partition just for the OS. Nice, tight and clean, and a breeze to ,as you said, format if needed with minimal repercussions.

Hope all goes well. If you feel like trading some files sometime, let me know. I have a lot of games, movies and programs.

[Bulsajo]

[snufalufagus]

Using partition magic to do this job is like using a jackhammer to press in a thumb tack. When I say it make take many changes to get them where you want them I refer to if you have many many drives and want to move them all around.

To simply change a drive letter in Windows 2000 or XP takes all of 8 seconds and you're done.

Changing drive letters for CD-ROM's is not within the realm of Partition Magic anyhow -- that applications tool is for changing drive letters of hard drives, not CD-ROM's, especially the operating system drive or drives that have things "installed" that have links or point to other drives for reference material to operate.

[Bulsajo]

[wylde]