Drive letters after reformat...

[durex]

Im having a brain freeze here... someone help me out...

I have 3 Harddrives in my system and 2 cdroms..

1- OS

1- Storage (d)

1- Split into 2 Partitions (e + p)

1- dvdrom (i)

1- cdrw (j)

If I reformat my pc and reload windows, will it keep my drive letters the same as before reformatting?

I dont know why I cant think of this... Ive reformatted perhaps 30 times at least, but its been so long since the last time and I just cant remember.....

Thanks!

[Yzöwl]

No, it will do this:

OS [C:]

Storage [D:]

Split into 2 Partitions [E: & F:]

dvdrom & cdrw [G: & H:(G: for master device or earliest IDE controller)]

You will probably then need to change your drive letters using Disk Management in XP.

[durex]

Im not sure I stated my question correctly..

If I reformat, will all of my drive letters stay the same after I re-install Windows?

Thanks!

[red_house]

I don't think so. They will be in alphabetical order, according to their importance, regardless of what letters they had been assigned at present. See Yzöwl's post for the fine detail.

[durex]

Hrm... I dont recal seeing that as his post before.... anyway that leads me to my next question then I guess.

Whats the cmd to change drive letters?

Thanks again guys.

[red_house]

Try these -

http://www.dougknox.com/tips/xp_drive_letters.htm

http://tinyurl.com/269as

[Yzöwl]

You may also wish to take a look at this.

[mdes]

You may also wish to take a look at this.

Or at this one

[Confused Amused]

If you're using XP and it picked up C: as your OS you should be fine. You can do the following to change drive letters after that:

Start | Right-click My Computer | Manage | Disk Management | Right-click any drive | Change drive letters and paths

Tom

[durex]

Yea.. I'll admit, I took the lazy route this time and didnt hit the trusty search button... thanks again guys!

btw... Im very familar with changing drives via comp mgmt... I was looking for a cmd like the posts mdes and yzowl referred to.