Changing drive letters?

[Santilli]

Having a bit of a fit. How do you reasign drive letters? I don't have a C drive, don't ask me why.
My system is installed on I drive.

Anyway to change drive letters to C, without screwing up my system, and or reinstalling everything?

My favorite address book, etc. won't install on I drive, even if I reassign the letter. PalmPilot 414.

Thanks

gs

 

[Tea]

On a Palm Pilot? I have no idea. Is there any sort of equilalent to the old DOS SUBST command?

 

[Fushigi]

What model Palm do you have? Have you tried the latest version of Palm Desktop?

 

[Mercutio]

On an NT-ish version of Windows, you can change drive letters with Disk Mangement (control panel, admin tools, disk management).

But you REALLY don't want to do that to your boot drive.
REALLY really.

I mean it.

If it's a problem for you, then you need to reinstall.

 

[P5-133XL]

Disk management won't allow drive-letter changes to your boot drive or your system drive.

You can attempt it via the registry in a search and replace fashion but it never seems to work right: I've always ended up with an unstable system afterwords.

I've seen it happen through installing another HD (earlier in the chain) and then installing another NT/W2k/XP onto it. That can sometimes bumb the drive letter of the old installation without apparent harm. Almost invariably I've been called in to undo situation that rather than create it.

 

[Mercutio]

Yeah. What Mark said.

I've done it using Sysinternals' ERD Commander, but the results are not pretty or functional.

 

[sechs]

Don't bother changing the drive letter. There are no negative consequences of leaving it as-is.

 

[ddrueding]

Seconding what everyone said...don't do it, you won't like the results.

If you are as anal-retentive as me and NEED a "C" drive, remove the other drives and re-install.

 

[Santilli]

The installer for palm pilot is idiotic, or doesn't like XP. I've tried it with SP 2, and had it installed without, but another program fuxored the settings,
FirstClassless, and I can't return them to normal, even after deleting them.

Appears FC deletes the originals, installing it's on path for hotsync backups, and I can't delete, or reinstall the program, since it's after a C drive.
It's weird, because the program does appear to let you reassign the target folder....

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[Fushigi]

Sounds more like a prob with FC that Palm Desktop. With FC installed, search the registry for "C:\Progra" or other strings to see if you can find where they're overriding the settings.

Back to Palm, I don't know if Palm Desktop supports SP2 yet. You may try some of the Palm forums around the net to see if there are any special requirements.