I have taken the easy option - sorry guys!

Jack's suggestion to use PM to change the program and registry entries which
referred to the drives, to the correct drives, was the simplest way. I don't
have to get another drive and I am not investing anything in an old PC which
might fail me in only a few months.

Thank-you for ALL your help and advice. It helped me make a decision which I
am happy with.

Nigel


"Mart" wrote in message
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Nigel, considering age and expense, you might want to fully explore your
two
other old drives first - even if it means a complete FDISK/Format of one
of
them - anything to get it to be recognised as a 'new' D: drive. You should
have sufficient information from all the contributors to this thread to at
least try, before you are forced to give-up g You *may* be able to pick
up
a serviceable, second-hand HDD from your local 'Computer Fair' for next to
nothing.

However, I would agree with Jack's recent comments as well as his earlier
ones at the beginning of the month, should you choose the re-mapping
route.

Good luck

Mart


"Jack E Martinelli" wrote in message
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The newer Powerquest Partition Magic programs, ca. Ver 5 to 8, have a
utility, DriveMapper, which can achieve this rewriting of the registry
to
redirect the new volume information.
Since Powerquest was purchasd by Symantec and no longer exists, these
partition manager programs are now inexpensive on the third-party
market,
i.e., Amazon and eBay, among others.

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"Nigel Andrews" wrote in message
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Thanks again for all this good advice.

I think I will have to go for a new (small) drive. I didn't really want
to
as the PC is fairly old and has a few other problems.
As this problem is that the programs on the partitions which are now
not
'linked' because the drives all stepped down one by letter. I may look
to
reinstall those to the current drive letters.
Although perhaps I should ask if there is any easy way to tell
WindowsMe
that a programme that was on E: is now on D:? I suspect reinstalling is
easiest way.

Nigel


"Mart" wrote in message
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SNIP