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  1. 01-16-2006, 09:34 PM #1
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    Question XP gurus... need help...

    How do you change the drive letters? I just reinstalled XP sp3, and forgot to pull out the printer, which has a card reader in it. It fricking installed, and the card reader is C: the hdd is E: and F: I wand it all back to how it was... I'm a noob in this part... PLS help if you can...
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  2. 01-16-2006, 09:38 PM #2
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    Quote Originally Posted by BoyNextDoor
    How do you change the drive letters? I just reinstalled XP sp3, and forgot to pull out the printer, which has a card reader in it. It fricking installed, and the card reader is C: the hdd is E: and F: I wand it all back to how it was... I'm a noob in this part... PLS help if you can...
    1. Right click on My Computer

    2. Click Manage

    3. Click Disk Management

    4. Right Click the Drive you want to change.

    Peace,

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  3. 01-16-2006, 09:54 PM #3
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    it says you cannot change the drive letter for a system volume or boot volume.

    Any solution? I have C: free now, b/c i relocated the drive to g:

    Do i really need to reinstall everything? It took me about 40 minutes...
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  4. 01-16-2006, 09:58 PM #4
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    partition magic has a drive mapper utility I think that you can change whatever you want... check it if you have it... if you need it pm me
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  5. 01-16-2006, 10:01 PM #5
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    thx... i'mma try that... anyone need turbotax 2k5 premier? LMK... lol
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    Try it in safe mode.....
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  7. 01-16-2006, 10:11 PM #7
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    k... restarting... brb... It's awesome how you can find a new software, download it, and have it installed in less than 2 minutes... I love it...
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    damn

    now i screwed up something... Looks like i clicked on he wrong button, b/c now it's a dynamic disk... and not even partition magic can do anything with it... i guess i'm off reinstalling again...
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  10. 01-16-2006, 10:55 PM #10
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    Quote Originally Posted by BoyNextDoor
    I just reinstalled XP sp3,
    You mean SP2? or am I a little late?

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