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Information on Drive Letters ---------- Use at your own risk ---------- Updated: 13:02 20/11/04
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Microsoft Pages

Microsoft Windows XP - Home Edition / Professional
Q307844   - HOW TO: Change Drive Letter Assignments in Windows XP
Q307844#2 - How to Assign a Drive Letter
Q307844#3 - How to Change a Drive Letter
Q307844#4 - How to Remove a Drive Letter

REFERENCES
Q300415   - Description of the Diskpart Command-Line Utility
Q307889   - HOW TO: Create and Use NTFS Mounted Drives in Windows XP
Q309000   - HOW TO: Use Disk Management to Configure Basic Disks in Windows XP
Q308424   - HOW TO: Use Disk Management to Configure Dynamic Disks in Windows XP

MS windowsxp expertzone - Change Drive Letters in Windows XP


Microsoft Windows 2000 - Server / Advanced Server / Professional / Datacenter Server
Most of these also apply to Windows XP
Q223188   - HOW TO: Restore the System/Boot Drive Letter in Windows
Q223188#2 - Change the System/Boot Drive Letter
Q234048   - How Windows 2000 Assigns, Reserves, and Stores Drive Letters
Q223188   - How to Change the System/Boot Drive Letter in Windows 2000
Q221799   - Drive Letters Assigned to Unsupported Partition Types
Q227364   - Dynamic volumes are not displayed accurately during Textmode Setup or Recovery Console
Q227605   - Windows 95 Drive letters may not migrate to Windows 2000 during upgrade
Q225025   - Setup Changes Drive Letters After a Partition Is Deleted and Reinstalled
Q223188   - HOW TO: Restore the System/Boot Drive Letter in Windows
Q223188#2 - Change the System/Boot Drive Letter
Q249321   - Unable to Log on if the Boot Partition Drive Letter Has Changed

Q318534   - Best Practices for Drive-Letter Assignments on a Server Cluster


Microsoft - MS-DOS / Windows 95 / Windows 98 / Windows Millennium Edition
Q51978    - Order in Which MS-DOS and Windows Assign Drive Letters


Platform SDK: Storage
msdn.microsoft.com - Editing Drive Letter Assignments


Non-Microsoft Pages

anandtech - How do I change drive letters?

dougknox - Changing Drive Letters in Windows XP?

Western Digital Service and Support - XP Drive Letter Assignments

MCSE World - How can I change the System partition drive letter in Windows XP?



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