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Thread: How do you change drive letters in DOS?

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    Wolfmight's Avatar Poster BT Rep: +1
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    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?

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    Wolfmight's Avatar Poster BT Rep: +1
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    come on, i need an answer quick.

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    Whay o/s ?

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    Windows XP
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    Quote Originally Posted by peat moss
    Whay o/s ?
    Dude, I specifically said,"My "windows" os.
    :-(

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    peat moss's Avatar Software Farmer BT Rep: +15BT Rep +15BT Rep +15
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    Quote Originally Posted by Wolfmight
    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

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    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.

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



    http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/
    Last edited by peat moss; 04-12-2005 at 04:58 AM.

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    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. :-(

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

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