On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 19:49:38 -0500, "Chad Harris"
<vistaneedsmuchowork.net> wrote:
>Larry W--
>
>It's as Rock says and you have to do it this way:
Geez, do you net nanny's even bother to read what people ask?
It seems the primary question is how can I restore the drive letter my
data and programs are on. It seems the original poster is quite happy
with the OS being installed as is.
In Vista, you can use the Disk Management console to manage the drives
on your computer. Anything but the letters A & B which are reserved
for floppy drives are available. So the options are anything from C
through Z. You can skip letters, even use the bottom of the alphabet
if that makes you happy.
Click Start, then right click on computer, then pick manage and
finally click on Disk Management. You will see a list of the drives
currently seen by Windows. If you have some external drives turned
off, they don't show until they are on and you refresh.
To change a drive letter assignment OTHER than your boot drive simply
right click on it from here and finally drive letter and path. DO NOT
change the drive letter (typically C) unless you really know what
you're doing. That too can be done, but not recommended since doing so
can really mess you up depending on how your system is setup.
Now if you want to get more fancy and you have a dual boot setup and
get confused with XP and Vista swapping drive letters depending on
which OS is active you CAN defeat that behavior.
Read this article:
http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-12558...50708&start=-8