How do you change drive letters in DOS?

[Wolfmight]

My hardrive's partition letters swapped for some unknown reason. My windows os is on D:\ and my documents partition is on C:\. Windows fails to boot everytime! How can I swap em in Dos to resolve the issue?

[Wolfmight]

come on, i need an answer quick.

[peat moss]

Whay o/s ?

[Wolfmight]

Windows XP

[Wolfmight]

Whay o/s ?
Dude, I specifically said,"My "windows" os.
:-(

[peat moss]

Dude, I specifically said,"My "windows" os.
:-(


Well windows has a few different flavours , and different ways of doing things.:)

Doug knox has good advice , third one down.

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

[Wolfmight]

I can't even run windows to modify windows, so that option is out. I need a bootable floppy that runs software that lets me change the drive letters or boot manager. Uhg, driving me nutts, running around naked

kidding on that last part.

[peat moss]

Or partion magic or other like tool . Hows about barts boot cd ?



http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/

[Wolfmight]

bart's boot cd doesn't let you change the drive letters.
I took the HD out and hooked it up slave into another computer here. Running it in windows now. I'm useing a downloaded version of partitionmagic 8 and it appears the Windows Partition was swaped with the storage partition I made awhile back. Windows is Logical, Storage is Primary! I can't seem to figure out how the hell this happend. It was always the other way around. It would take atleast 5 hours to complete such a process. Anyways, I'm swapping them back..gonna take about 3 hours to complete the speed it's going. :-(

[Vargas]

not sure but editing boot.ini might be a way to boot from D:\

[peat moss]

bart's boot cd doesn't let you change the drive letters.
I took the HD out and hooked it up slave into another computer here. Running it in windows now. I'm useing a downloaded version of partitionmagic 8 and it appears the Windows Partition was swaped with the storage partition I made awhile back. Windows is Logical, Storage is Primary! I can't seem to figure out how the hell this happend. It was always the other way around. It would take atleast 5 hours to complete such a process. Anyways, I'm swapping them back..gonna take about 3 hours to complete the speed it's going. :-(



I went googling after my last post, see what you mean not a lot of help if you can't boot! :( I was wondering about the ultimate boot disk because of the fdisk tools? It seems to be software related . Hope you get it sorted . :)