durex Posted December 20, 2004 Share Posted December 20, 2004 Im having a brain freeze here... someone help me out...I have 3 Harddrives in my system and 2 cdroms..1- OS1- 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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yzöwl Posted December 21, 2004 Share Posted December 21, 2004 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
durex Posted December 21, 2004 Author Share Posted December 21, 2004 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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red_house Posted December 21, 2004 Share Posted December 21, 2004 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
durex Posted December 21, 2004 Author Share Posted December 21, 2004 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red_house Posted December 21, 2004 Share Posted December 21, 2004 Try these - http://www.dougknox.com/tips/xp_drive_letters.htmhttp://tinyurl.com/269as Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yzöwl Posted December 21, 2004 Share Posted December 21, 2004 You may also wish to take a look at this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdes Posted December 21, 2004 Share Posted December 21, 2004 You may also wish to take a look at this.Or at this one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Confused Amused Posted December 21, 2004 Share Posted December 21, 2004 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 pathsTom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
durex Posted December 21, 2004 Author Share Posted December 21, 2004 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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