How to change drive letter without changing registry

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  my C is full and where windows is installed. my D is empty. (why the manufactures don't partitions this way, idiots)

  but there's this http://support.microsoft.com/kb/933700

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  so I guess my question is stupid: I can change the dfault to D? If not, is it OK to cross partitions? can you please also tell me the command move?

  Thank you

  Most of the programs will allow you to do a custom Setup and change the location of the Program Files folder. Just be careful during installation. We'll always some files on the system (usually c :)) drive. For programs that are already installed in C: to D:, to add or remove programs, uninstall them and reinstall them. MS - MVP - Elephant Boy computers - don't panic!

• I currently store my pictures on and an external hard drive.  Lightroom 6 was not able to find the picture momentarily files.  I inserted an external Flash DRIVE after removing the hard drive and the computer renamed the stick with the same drive letter t

  Redesign existing external hard disks and still 6 Lightroom able to find existing photos.

  I currently store my pictures on and an external hard drive.  Lightroom 6 was not able to find the picture momentarily files.  I inserted an external Flash DRIVE after removing the hard drive and the computer renamed the stick with the same drive letter that has been designated by Lightroom to store my photos.  I could go into my Windows 10 and reset the player to the letter that Lightroom has given at the beginning of the external hard drive.   However, I know this can happen again, if I connect any stick USD or another device, while the external hard drive is not connected to my laptop.   I found the information that I can do the new designation of the final drive by choosing a letter it is 1/2 way or higher in the alphabet.   I would like to turn an external hard drive on a strong letter, warns we hope this previous problem.   My question is, if I already have a lot of pictures on this external hardrive with the designation of the current drive, how it becomes a higher letter and have 6 Lightroom recognizes files, now under the new designation of drive letter without having to go to each photo individually and manually force Lightroom 6 find each photo.  It would take more time than I'd like to lose.  Is there a way to get just 6 Lightroom to recognize the new disk designation has changed and is able to find all of the existing files?

  I have read the ADOBE LightRoom 6 manual and seem not to be able to find anything on how to do it.

  Any help would be welcome.

  Thank you!

  So in Windows, you can select a drive like q letter (or any other letter you want only towards the end of the alphabet)

  Then in Lightroom, you can reconnect to the photos on q: the following instructions (see specifically 4 Figure and related text)

  Adobe Lightroom - find moved or missing folders and files

• How doI change my E drive to the D drive designation without moving cables

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  Hello

  I think that might help you, how to change the drive letter in Windows XP:

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/307844/en

  Part:

  How to change a drive letter

  LC

• How can I change the drive letter of the floppy drive?

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  Good bye

• WIN8 - how to change the recovery partition drive letter

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  http://community.Spiceworks.com/how_to/show/883-how-to-unlock-delete-or-remove-the-EISA-hidden-recovery-or-diagnostic-partition-in-Vista

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• How can I change the drive letter of the second disc of C: to another letter?

  original title: I add an opportunity second hard drive labeled C:. How can I change the drive letter of the second disc of C: to another letter?

  I'm runnibg Vista service pack 1 on a Compaq Presario with a labeled hard drive C:.

  No you haven't, how it was labeled in the old pc is irrelevant, just install you it as slave on your PC drive, depends on the question of if you need to change the jumper on the drive. Some PC manufacturers require the rider to be set as "cable select" others as "slave" (unless of course, it's a sata drive that requires no jumpers)

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• How can I change the drive letter assigned to the partition of 'winretools' on a laptop Win 8?

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  In an earlier version of Windows, I would just go into management drives, right click on the partition in question, assign a different drive letter and work done.  On my machine, the WINRETOOL 2 GB partition shows not even as having a drive letter in disk management, despite the fact that it is D: in Win Explorer.  In addition, only the right click option is 'help '.  I took this option, and, despite its aspirations, it is not useful.

  How can I change this drive letter to something else?  WINRETOOLS should even have a drive letter in Explorer (some messages that I've seen indicates that it must be hidden)?  If I change the drive letter, which will break its function, whatever it is?

  ....

  My machine has a 500 GB of rotating disk that has all of the above partitions.  I shrunk the 80 GB C: partition, to create a data partition.  I've not yet formatted the unallocated space I want to solve this WINRETOOLS thing first.  Finally, there is a 32 GB of SSD that I put in place as a cache of the Intel Smart Response, and it is no longer visible to the operating system.

  At the command prompt, type the following and press "enter":

  mountvol D:\/d

  Close the command prompt.

  Drive D: letter should now be available and not used.

  Here's some info about Mountvol, it's very powerful to be safe to use it:

  

• How to change the drive letter with installed applications?

  My window is installed on the C: drive, and the application is installed on the D: drive,

  I just buy a new HARD drive and put it into drive E:, everything is copied from drive D: to E: drive and want to switch between the letter D: and E:.

  I tried to put in DISKPART, but when I restart my XP, the drive letter remains the same,

  If I change the drive letter directly in XP, it cannot be changed, because the applications are running.

  Does anyone have any suggestions?

  Thanks in advance for your suggestions

  Make sure any DVD/CD or USB keys are not connected or set F assignments or beyond (MY DVD is S & T).

  Shut down the computer; power off. Disconnect the old drive (now D). Connect the new drive (now a copy of the old D). Power and boot to the desktop. Go into disk management and make sure the drive that contains Windows, the original C drive is always c. assign the new drive as D. Reboot the desktop. Check operation.

  Shut down the computer; power off. Plug the old drive. Restart the desktop computer. Enter Disk Management and assign it to E.

  Restart, then check the operation.

  Tom Ferguson

• How to change the system from Vista Home Premium to Vista Ultimate 64 withoute lose the option of HARD drive backup?

  IM now running Vista Home Premium 32. I would like to change the system for Vista Ultimate 64 so I can run more than 4 GB of memory. Now Ive some factory settings if something happened, I can run my HARD drive restore. My question is how to change the Vista 64 operating system, so I can keep the recovery on my hard drive partition?  Mayby there is some kind of upgrade cd?

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  Hello

  32-bit to 64-bit is not an upgrade

  It must be done with a clean installation using a full version ' / Ultimate 64 bit license

  Contact the manufacturer of your computer for more information on getting 64-bit ultimate, which I doubt they will always

  and microsoft sells more vista

  they moved on windows 7

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• How to solve my problem to change my USB drive letter

  Hey guys,.

  I needed to change my drive letter of the USB on a windows 7 when I press start and right click on computer then press on handle is to get a message saying

  "Windows cannot find"C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Program\Administrative Tools\Computer Management.Ink". Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try to gain. "

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  Inder-

  * Proposed by the moderator for hardware & drivers. Reason: Add clarity.* *.

  Create a shortcut on your desktop using this command line:

  diskmgmt.msc

• Limit of 2 TB on 2nd HARD drive, how to change without affecting the system reserved Partition?

  I have 2 drives - 240GB SSD where Windows is installed and a HD in Toshiba 3 TB of data.

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  Hi YT :)

  You're right, that this problem is caused by the fact that your hard drive is cut using the style of partition table MBR, which allows only to create partitions to a maximum of 2 TB size each. In order to 'break' this limit, you must convert your hard drive in a GPT partition table, which does not have this limit (well, the limit to 128 TB then there it doesn't matter much). You can convert your hard disk from MBR to GPT without loss of data. Follow the instructions in the tutorial below:

  http://www.thewindowsclub.com/convert-MBR-to-GPT-disk

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• Can I change the drive letter of the partition BDEDrive on a computer using the BitLocker encryption without causing problems?

  The computer is running Windows 7 Enterprise and has a hard drive encrypted with BitLocker. Drive s. letter is assigned to the partition of BDEDrive I am currently installing an application on this PC which uses a drive mapping, and he refuses to use anything other than its default value (which is S). The best way I can resolve this would be to reallocate the BDEdrive a different drive letter re-use then S for the application mapping.

  Change the drive letter BDEDrive will break anything, specifically with Bitlocker?

  Hello

  Given that BDEDRIVE is used for deployment, and you try to map the drive. I would recommend posting your query in the TechNet Forums.

  TechNet Forum
  http://social.technet.Microsoft.com/forums/Windows/en-us/home?Forum=w7itprovirt

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• How can I change the drive letter of the cd/DVD/BD in windows 8

  The only thing that appears under device management is hard drives.  Optical drives do not arise as they did under XP or 7.

  In Windows 8, the optical drives are listed in the Device Manager under CD/DVD-ROM drives.

  In windows 8, the drive letter assignments are made in the disk management snap-in in.

  Access

  Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Administrative tools

  Computer management

  Disk management

  Highlight the device in the list, click the icon to the left of the list on the right left

  In the context menu, select change drive letter and path.

  Follow the on-screen prompts.

  If the devices are not listed, shut down the computer to the power off. Wait a minute. Restart and check again.

  Tom Ferguson

• How can I change the drive letter of the disposable disc?

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