New one for me...Have a drive partitioned as C,D,E,F,G,H.--You don't
want to know why. Had corruped C drive and tried to get out of
reinstalling Win XP Pro. Installed a second drive as a master and
made the original a slave. Smaller drive but with 6 partitions. Was
not able to "fix" the original C drive so I reinstalled windows on it.
It showed up a J drive (I being a CD drive). Removed second drive and
made main drive the master. In windows explorer there was no C drive.
It started with D and my boot drive, which should have been C showed
as J. Found how to rename the J drive to C drive which I did. BUT J
drive is still there along with the C drive. Saved a test file to C
and it showed up also on J. One saved to J showed up on C.

Anyway to fix beside copying D,E,F,G and H to another drive,
repartitioning and installing XP to C and then copying D,E,F,G and H
back onto my main drive?

Anybody ever see this before??

Ziggy

gigobert

I have had something close to the problem you described. After quite some
experimenting I found the main cause to be my build-in cardreader that
"reserved" 5 letters following after de C-F I had my HD partitioned. Then I
made the mistake to connect several usb devices at the same time while using
other ports then I normally used for them.
Finally I found the C and D partition to have changed to F and G.
The way I solved this problem was to delete the cardreader drivers and to
disable them . After that you are able to change the , in my case, F and G
back to C and D . Later I re-installed the reader and took care to use
letters much further in the alphabet;
Thus you should avoid that windows auto-select letters immediately following
your partition letters and dvd station. And stick as much as possible to the
same ports for your usb devices.
I hope you can distil something useful out of this story for your particular
case.
regards


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olfart

I have my cardreaders set as W,X,Z,Y
That kepes then out of the way

gigobert

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By now I know that to be a good tip ; I should have read about that before

I keep gettting the windows/system32/config/system problem and finally
had to reinstall windows again. That got rid of my "mirrow" drive but
I forgot to disconnect my external USB drive and now it it D instead
of J.

;(

relic

You can change drive letters in Disk Manager. Only the Boot drive and the
drive with the OS on it can't be changed.