How do I change Partition Letters?

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A friend of mine had 2 small hard drives with 2 partitions on each drive for a total of 4 partitions.
I installed a new Western Dig. 20 gig drive on his older AMD K6-2, 500mhz system using the Data Tools that come with the drive.

During the "Copy Partition" process I was dealing with c,d,e,f,g,h,i,j drives and inadvertently copied drive "d" info to drive "e" partition. Now the utilities, shortcuts, etc that were pointing to Drive D return an error message. If it were just a cd drive letter,etc, I know how to change that, but is there a solution as easy as just renaming the 2 partitions I mis copied? It's not a problem to re-format and re-copy, I'm just hoping to save some time. I have an old version around here somewhere of PartitionMagic 4.0 but am not sure if I can just rename a partition.....

Sorry for the ignorance and thanks in advance for all help and suggestions...

 

[Wolfsraider]

what version of windows ?

xp and 2000 its easy win 98 etc i don't know .

please put machine specs and windows version so we can help.

 

[corkyg]

Drive letters in XP are changed as follows: Administrative Service - Computer Management - Disk Management. There is a graphic-worksheet that lets you adjust drive letters.

In Win 98X series, you go to System - Device Manager - and select the specific drive you want to change, right click on it and you will find the drive letter assignment in Properties.

However, a REAL drive will take priority and will take the next drive letter AFTER C. That will be drive D. That is not normally changeable. If you have multiple partitions, you can fix it by copy all the data that was once on D (now E) back to the real D. The rest of the virtual drives can be changed, but you might want to use Partition Magic to distribute the now empty "E" space among the remaining partitions.

Don't try it with less than Partition Magic 6, and if you have XP, you will need 7.

 

[morkinva]

For Win98 you could try this