pointing a drive to another drive

[Guest goldwyn98]

My computer uses drive E: rather than C: as the hard drive. The computer has

no C: drive. Some programs automatically try to download or open to drive c:

without asking, so they fail. Is there a way to get the computer to direct

requests for C: to go to E: instead (such as C:=E:)?

[Guest Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Re: pointing a drive to another drive

 

 

"goldwyn98" <goldwyn98@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

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> My computer uses drive E: rather than C: as the hard drive. The computer

> has

> no C: drive. Some programs automatically try to download or open to drive

> c:

> without asking, so they fail. Is there a way to get the computer to direct

> requests for C: to go to E: instead (such as C:=E:)?

 

Yes. Place the following lines into the file

E:\documents and Settings\All Users\Start

Menu\Programs\Startup\netlogon.bat:

 

@echo off

subst C: E:\

[Guest David H. Lipman]

Re: pointing a drive to another drive

 

From: "Pegasus (MVP)" <I.can@fly.com.oz>

 

 

|

| Yes. Place the following lines into the file

| E:\documents and Settings\All Users\Start

| Menu\Programs\Startup\netlogon.bat:

|

| @echo off

| subst C: E:\

|

 

People forget about the SUBSTitute command.

My favourite use is for the situation when a cluelees LAN users creates super-long file

names in deep subfolders and you get errors accesing the data. The SUBST command allows me

to access the data and flatten the data tree and shorten the file names.

 

I also use it when copying data when porting users from one system to another.

 

Example:

subst k: "C:\Documents and Settings\lipman"

 

--

Dave

http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html

Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp

[Guest windmap]

Re: pointing a drive to another drive

 

Use the disk management through MMC to change the drive letter for primary

partition.Third party programs like Acronis disk director and Norton

Partition magic can do the job safely.

 

 

"goldwyn98" <goldwyn98@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:D0DA1274-48D3-43E7-96C3-A8B98D470CB6@microsoft.com...

> My computer uses drive E: rather than C: as the hard drive. The computer

> has

> no C: drive. Some programs automatically try to download or open to drive

> c:

> without asking, so they fail. Is there a way to get the computer to direct

> requests for C: to go to E: instead (such as C:=E:)?

[Guest David H. Lipman]

Re: pointing a drive to another drive

 

From: "windmap" <windmap@gmail.com>

 

| Use the disk management through MMC to change the drive letter for primary

| partition.Third party programs like Acronis disk director and Norton

| Partition magic can do the job safely.

 

No, this is NOT safe. If the OS loads as "E:" and you change it to "C:" then the drive

might have the letter you want but the Registry would still be pointing at "E:" and the oS

would be completely corrupted.

 

 

--

Dave

http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html

Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp

[Guest Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Re: pointing a drive to another drive

 

 

"windmap" <windmap@gmail.com> wrote in message

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> Use the disk management through MMC to change the drive letter for primary

> partition.Third party programs like Acronis disk director and Norton

> Partition magic can do the job safely.

>

 

Disk Management will NOT let you do this, which is

fortunate, because (as David has already pointed out)

it would cripple this Windows installation.

[Guest PD43]

Re: pointing a drive to another drive

 

"windmap" <windmap@gmail.com> wrote:

>Use the disk management through MMC to change the drive letter for primary

>partition.

 

You're outta yer mind and have no business offering "help" here