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Old 04-19-2007, 03:50 AM
Stile777
 
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Default assign a drive letter to the Zip drive

I found my old Zip Drive and tried to see what was on the disk. The software
changed my Boot drive to G: instead of what it's supposed to be. XP boots
fine off the C: drive yet it changes it to G: after it boots up. Since I have
a few shortcuts pointing to C: (which is now G they don't work (duh). Anway
I want to know how to fix this without using setup again! I do not want to
reinstall it for the hundreth time. There ought to be a way I can use regeit
to fix this since its Windows that is changing the drive because something in
the registry changed. The only fix I could find on Technet is a reinstall.
And that was written in 2002. Its 5 years later and there should be an easier
fix? Any Help would be appriciated.
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Old 04-19-2007, 04:38 AM
BillW50
 
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Default Re: assign a drive letter to the Zip drive

"Stile777" <Stile777@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:7207EE4C-5F0C-49EC-84C4-5B3D52C65DC1@microsoft.com
> I found my old Zip Drive and tried to see what was on the disk. The
> software changed my Boot drive to G: instead of what it's supposed to
> be. XP boots fine off the C: drive yet it changes it to G: after it
> boots up. Since I have a few shortcuts pointing to C: (which is now
> G they don't work (duh). Anway I want to know how to fix this
> without using setup again! I do not want to reinstall it for the
> hundreth time. There ought to be a way I can use regeit to fix this
> since its Windows that is changing the drive because something in the
> registry changed. The only fix I could find on Technet is a
> reinstall. And that was written in 2002. Its 5 years later and there
> should be an easier fix? Any Help would be appriciated.


Open up run (Win-R) and paste in the following:

%SystemRoot%\system32\compmgmt.msc /s

Select Disk Management. Then right click on the drive and change the
drive letter.

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Bill

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