Program that changes drive letter D: to G: for example.

mm wrote:
On Sat, 2 Oct 2010 12:13:56 -0400, "dadiOH"
wrote:

dadiOH wrote:
mm wrote:
Program that changes drive letter D: to G: for example.

Five or ten years ago I had a freeware program that would scan the
harddisk and find every place where a drive letter of your choosing
was used, like C: or D:, display a list of them, and give you the
opportunity to change some or all of them to some other drive letter.

Does anyone remember the name of that program? Or part of the name.
Or the author's name?

It would look in the registry and all the .bat files and shortcuts
and some other places that didn't come to my mind years ago until I
saw the author had thought of them (and don't come to my mind today
either.)

It had a simple gui, nothing fancy, but did have white squares,
probably with scroll bars where the names of the files appeared each
with a check box probably.

I have a great need for something like this now.

Thanks.

There is a program called COA (change of address) that purports to do
so. http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,9413,00.asp

Hey, that's it! Thanks so much. Newsgroups are so great (and you're
great too. )

Reading more about it, now that I know its name, it was written by
Neil J. Rubenking at Ziff Davis, a name I used to know, and you can dl
it he http://marmro.homeip.net/Description/coa2.zip.html
Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows NT 4, Windows 2000

It doesn't list XP, but one person said it worked fine with XP, but
wouldn't the change in name of the registry file make it
hard/impossible for it to work with XP....unless there is a system
variable that means the registry, like there is for the windows
directory etc. Yes, that must be how it does it, because it also
works with w2000 where the registry is probably also pagefile.sys.

I don't think the registry is "pagefile.sys", but I don't know w2000.

But for Win9x, it's in the two system files, "system.dat" and "user.dat".

For WinXP, I believe there are several files in the registry hive: DEFAULT,
SAM, SECURITY, SOFTWARE, SYSTEM, ntuser.dat, UsrClass.dat, but I'm not sure
which ones are which! (Perhaps someone else can clarify)?


I used COA on Win9x, but don't recall if I tried it on XP or not. But as
you said, there's probably a good chance it will work there. I've also done
the manual regedit search and manually replace approach, which is a bit
tedious. I also think there are some basic registry editors that will do a
search and replace to replace all references of a drive letter (for example)
with another, but you have to be *very* careful with that. (I think I did
that before with the drive letter colon attached (like replace "E:" with
"F:" for example), or better yet, "E:\" with "F:\", for example)..

On Sat, 2 Oct 2010 13:36:05 -0600, "Bill in Co"
wrote:

mm wrote:
On Sat, 2 Oct 2010 12:13:56 -0400, "dadiOH"
wrote:

dadiOH wrote:
mm wrote:
Program that changes drive letter D: to G: for example.

Five or ten years ago I had a freeware program that would scan the
harddisk and find every place where a drive letter of your choosing
was used, like C: or D:, display a list of them, and give you the
opportunity to change some or all of them to some other drive letter.

Does anyone remember the name of that program? Or part of the name.
Or the author's name?

It would look in the registry and all the .bat files and shortcuts
and some other places that didn't come to my mind years ago until I
saw the author had thought of them (and don't come to my mind today
either.)

It had a simple gui, nothing fancy, but did have white squares,
probably with scroll bars where the names of the files appeared each
with a check box probably.

I have a great need for something like this now.

Thanks.

There is a program called COA (change of address) that purports to do
so. http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,9413,00.asp

Hey, that's it! Thanks so much. Newsgroups are so great (and you're
great too. )

Reading more about it, now that I know its name, it was written by
Neil J. Rubenking at Ziff Davis, a name I used to know, and you can dl
it he http://marmro.homeip.net/Description/coa2.zip.html
Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows NT 4, Windows 2000

It doesn't list XP, but one person said it worked fine with XP, but
wouldn't the change in name of the registry file make it
hard/impossible for it to work with XP....unless there is a system
variable that means the registry, like there is for the windows
directory etc. Yes, that must be how it does it, because it also
works with w2000 where the registry is probably also pagefile.sys.

I don't think the registry is "pagefile.sys", but I don't know w2000.

Oh, yeah, thanks for the tactful correction. Pagefile is the swap
file. I don't know if I know what the registry is called. But it
would be in the windows directory, not the root, like this one.

But for Win9x, it's in the two system files, "system.dat" and "user.dat".

Oh, yeah. Two files. I forget the difference beween the two.

For WinXP, I believe there are several files in the registry hive: DEFAULT,
SAM, SECURITY, SOFTWARE, SYSTEM,

Oh, yeah. This 5 are in windows\system32\config.

There are five sections to the XP registry, Classes, Current User,
Local Machine, Users, and Current Config. Maybe each of them
corresponds to one of your five.

ntuser.dat, UsrClass.dat,

I don't see these, but I didn't migrate from win2000. Maybe that's
why.

Regardless, regedit picks up all of them and if regedit can do it,
maybe COA2 can do it.

but I'm not sure
which ones are which! (Perhaps someone else can clarify)?

(I can't clarify but I can muddle it further! There is a system.dat
file, 8 megs in my case. And User.dat, one meg. But both were last
updated a year ago May. Hmmm. I installed software just last week.
Hmmm. Nothing important has been updated in windows\ directory since
last may, nothing but log files and 5 or 6 others. May 2009 must be
when I transfered my win98 data to XP, which it used to set up winXP
to a large extent.)

I used COA on Win9x, but don't recall if I tried it on XP or not. But as
you said, there's probably a good chance it will work there. I've also done
the manual regedit search and manually replace approach, which is a bit
tedious.

One win98 version of Norton Utilities included a Registry program that
would look for all occurrences of a given search string, at the same
time. Then iirc, you could change them all at once, or probably just
the ones you wanted. Maybe you couldn't change more than one at once,
but at least you could see them all at once, know how many there were,
and decide which ones are important, and which are just Recently
Viewed, for example.

I lost Norton in my crash, too, although I'm sure i have the CD in one
of the piles of CDs. However I have newer Norton CDs, I bought at
hamfests. ONe is 2003, so it should work with XP, but I can't install
it until I get the other things done and migrate to a newer (2003)
computer, so I don't know what all it has.

(I bought Norton versions mostly to get Cleansweep so I could move
programs with that. Some versions have it and some don't. Before the
crash I had 8 partitions, because there was a limit on partition size,
so for lack of the ability to plan I had a greater need to move things
than I do now.).

I also think there are some basic registry editors that will do a
search and replace to replace all references of a drive letter (for example)
with another, but you have to be *very* careful with that. (I think I did
that before with the drive letter colon attached (like replace "E:" with
"F:" for example), or better yet, "E:\" with "F:\", for example)..

Yes, I can see why caution is needed.

On Sat, 02 Oct 2010 09:43:36 -0500, philo
wrote:

On 10/02/2010 08:53 AM, FromTheRafters wrote:
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On Fri, 1 Oct 2010 23:16:30 -0400, "FromTheRafters"erratic
@nomail.afraid.org wrote:


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Program that changes drive letter D: to G: for example.

Five or ten years ago I had a freeware program that would scan the
harddisk and find every place where a drive letter of your choosing
was used, like C: or D:, display a list of them, and give you the
opportunity to change some or all of them to some other drive letter.

Does anyone remember the name of that program? Or part of the name.
Or the author's name?

It would look in the registry and all the .bat files and shortcuts and
some other places that didn't come to my mind years ago until I saw
the author had thought of them (and don't come to my mind today
either.)

It had a simple gui, nothing fancy, but did have white squares,
probably with scroll bars where the names of the files appeared each
with a check box probably.

I have a great need for something like this now.

LetterAssigner?

http://www.webtechgeek.com/How-to-Ch...in-Windows.htm

Thanks for replying.

These are sort of the opposite. They allow you to change the letter
assigned to the drive. So an E drive can become an F drive, for
example.

I'm looking for something that leaves the letters assigned to the
drives alone, but changes the references to the drives wherever drive
letters are mentioned in file names, like in dos .bat files, or
shortcut properties, or in the registry where many files are listed by
fully qualified name, D:\windows\something.exe but now D: has changed
to G: and I want to change the name to say G:\windows\something.exe,
that is, I want to change D: to G:.

See what I mean?

I do now. Sorry I misunderstood. You want to edit all references to the
assigned drive letters, not just to change the assigned letters.

If I find something, I'll post back (but don't hold your breath).

I think Norton Utilities for win98 could do that...
it's been a long time since I've used it though

I found something else that can do it, Drive Mapper of Partition Magic
8.

Also PM Drive Mapper is in version 5 and I'm pretty sure 4, though I
don't know if older versions will have a problem with larger
partitions. Should they?

PM8 says it handles FAT and FAT32 partitions up to 160 gigs, but maybe
that woudln't affect changing drive letters, or maybe it would?????

Of course so far, the rest of the drive may be more than 160 gig, but
none of the partitions I use are bigger than that.

Drive Mapper has 3 options too.
One that just changes the letter,
One for partitions that have been merged
These first two are similar.
One for partitions that have been split. For this option, you can be
more specific than just drive letter. You can give a complete path to
a file or folder, the new name, and it assumes the same path for the
old name, not counting the drive letter.

Drive Mapper from Partition Manager sounds really good.

There is a Drive Mapper 4.0..01 that seems free, but it isn't anything
like the one that PM8 had. In fact, it doesn't seem to work much and
has no help file. Skip this one. (One clue it wasn't the same was
that it needed MS .net framework, which didnt' exist I think when I
got PM8.)

Then I found Drive Mapper as part of Partition Magic, but when I went
either to download it or buy it, they switched to Partition Wizard,
for 113 dollars no less. This is the second time I've found a 3rd
party webpage doing this sort of thing. And Easus had a page about
Partition Magic, didn't figure out why.

( I also don't know if even PM8 will be able to read the XP registry.
Do you think that woudl be a problem? If so, it's a shame Norton
bought it and stopped selling it, when it might have take only small
changes. I could put a phony entry in the registry, for a phony
partition, like M:\test\test, and then see if Drive Mapper finds it
and changes it. )

? what are you doing
For I see you are making Software changes to drive letter, will only work
with the System that it made in like XP.
The Software changes to drive letter will not make changes for win98 System
if you not running the Software in win98..

For all Hard drives letter or Setup by the Computer at Start up ((( with one
Hard drives ))
Hard drives 0 is C
CD/DVD Rom is D
USB E if running one))

((( with Two Hard drives ))
Hard drives 0 is C
Hard drives 1 is D
CD/DVD Rom is E
USB F if running one))
will always be first, then the System
But you can changes how it Boots in Setup at the Start of the Computer
So you Computer is A? HP, Dell, CompaQ we need to know to tell you to get
to the Setup page!

Now is your the System runs XP look in My Computer to see if!

Drive letter (A) 3 1/2 Floppy, © Dirv1_Vol1, (D) Dirv2_Vol1, (E)
Dirv2_Vol2, (F) Dirv2_Vol2, (G) CD/DVD Rom,
You say you like it to
changes to drive letter::: (A) 3 1/2 Floppy, © Dirv1_Vol1, (D) CD/DVD Rom,
(E) Dirv2_Vol2, (F) Dirv2_Vol2, (G) Dirv2_Vol1,
do this look right?

If not show us how it on your System OK!

mm wrote:
On Sat, 02 Oct 2010 09:43:36 -0500, philo
wrote:

On 10/02/2010 08:53 AM, FromTheRafters wrote:
wrote in message
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On Fri, 1 Oct 2010 23:16:30 -0400, "FromTheRafters"erratic
@nomail.afraid.org wrote:


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Program that changes drive letter D: to G: for example.

Five or ten years ago I had a freeware program that would scan the
harddisk and find every place where a drive letter of your choosing
was used, like C: or D:, display a list of them, and give you the
opportunity to change some or all of them to some other drive letter.

Does anyone remember the name of that program? Or part of the name.
Or the author's name?

It would look in the registry and all the .bat files and shortcuts
and
some other places that didn't come to my mind years ago until I saw
the author had thought of them (and don't come to my mind today
either.)

It had a simple gui, nothing fancy, but did have white squares,
probably with scroll bars where the names of the files appeared each
with a check box probably.

I have a great need for something like this now.

LetterAssigner?

http://www.webtechgeek.com/How-to-Ch...in-Windows.htm

Thanks for replying.

These are sort of the opposite. They allow you to change the letter
assigned to the drive. So an E drive can become an F drive, for
example.

I'm looking for something that leaves the letters assigned to the
drives alone, but changes the references to the drives wherever drive
letters are mentioned in file names, like in dos .bat files, or
shortcut properties, or in the registry where many files are listed by
fully qualified name, D:\windows\something.exe but now D: has changed
to G: and I want to change the name to say G:\windows\something.exe,
that is, I want to change D: to G:.

See what I mean?

I do now. Sorry I misunderstood. You want to edit all references to the
assigned drive letters, not just to change the assigned letters.

If I find something, I'll post back (but don't hold your breath).

I think Norton Utilities for win98 could do that...
it's been a long time since I've used it though

I found something else that can do it, Drive Mapper of Partition Magic
8.

Also PM Drive Mapper is in version 5 and I'm pretty sure 4, though I
don't know if older versions will have a problem with larger
partitions. Should they?

PM8 says it handles FAT and FAT32 partitions up to 160 gigs, but maybe
that wouldn't affect changing drive letters, or maybe it would?????

?? I don't see any logical connection between partition size and changing
the drive letters.

Of course so far, the rest of the drive may be more than 160 gig, but
none of the partitions I use are bigger than that.

Same here. Not much point.

Drive Mapper has 3 options too.
One that just changes the letter,
One for partitions that have been merged
These first two are similar.
One for partitions that have been split. For this option, you can be
more specific than just drive letter. You can give a complete path to
a file or folder, the new name, and it assumes the same path for the
old name, not counting the drive letter.

Drive Mapper from Partition Manager sounds really good.

There is a Drive Mapper 4.0..01 that seems free, but it isn't anything
like the one that PM8 had. In fact, it doesn't seem to work much and
has no help file. Skip this one. (One clue it wasn't the same was
that it needed MS .net framework, which didnt' exist I think when I
got PM8.)

Then I found Drive Mapper as part of Partition Magic, but when I went
either to download it or buy it, they switched to Partition Wizard,
for 113 dollars no less. This is the second time I've found a 3rd
party webpage doing this sort of thing. And Easus had a page about
Partition Magic, didn't figure out why.

( I also don't know if even PM8 will be able to read the XP registry.
Do you think that woudl be a problem? If so, it's a shame Norton
bought it and stopped selling it, when it might have take only small
changes. I could put a phony entry in the registry, for a phony
partition, like M:\test\test, and then see if Drive Mapper finds it
and changes it. )

I've got Norton Partition Magic 8.0 installed on this XP computer, and have
used it on occasion for some partition work, but nothing else. Not sure
what you meant by it's "ability or inability to read the registry", per se
(i.e., it's reading the drive, but using the registry, like any program
does), but it does work on Win XP, if that's what you meant, even with this
250 GB drive, which has several partitions (but no one partition is anywhere
near 160 GB here, though).

mm wrote:
On Sat, 2 Oct 2010 13:36:05 -0600, "Bill in Co"
wrote:

mm wrote:
On Sat, 2 Oct 2010 12:13:56 -0400, "dadiOH"
wrote:

dadiOH wrote:
mm wrote:
Program that changes drive letter D: to G: for example.

Five or ten years ago I had a freeware program that would scan the
harddisk and find every place where a drive letter of your choosing
was used, like C: or D:, display a list of them, and give you the
opportunity to change some or all of them to some other drive letter.

Does anyone remember the name of that program? Or part of the name.
Or the author's name?

It would look in the registry and all the .bat files and shortcuts
and some other places that didn't come to my mind years ago until I
saw the author had thought of them (and don't come to my mind today
either.)

It had a simple gui, nothing fancy, but did have white squares,
probably with scroll bars where the names of the files appeared each
with a check box probably.

I have a great need for something like this now.

Thanks.

There is a program called COA (change of address) that purports to do
so. http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,9413,00.asp

Hey, that's it! Thanks so much. Newsgroups are so great (and you're
great too. )

Reading more about it, now that I know its name, it was written by
Neil J. Rubenking at Ziff Davis, a name I used to know, and you can dl
it he http://marmro.homeip.net/Description/coa2.zip.html
Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows NT 4, Windows 2000

It doesn't list XP, but one person said it worked fine with XP, but
wouldn't the change in name of the registry file make it
hard/impossible for it to work with XP....unless there is a system
variable that means the registry, like there is for the windows
directory etc. Yes, that must be how it does it, because it also
works with w2000 where the registry is probably also pagefile.sys.

I don't think the registry is "pagefile.sys", but I don't know w2000.

Oh, yeah, thanks for the tactful correction. Pagefile is the swap
file. I don't know if I know what the registry is called. But it
would be in the windows directory, not the root, like this one.

But for Win9x, it's in the two system files, "system.dat" and "user.dat".

Oh, yeah. Two files. I forget the difference beween the two.

For WinXP, I believe there are several files in the registry hive:
DEFAULT,
SAM, SECURITY, SOFTWARE, SYSTEM,

Oh, yeah. This 5 are in windows\system32\config.

There are five sections to the XP registry, Classes, Current User,
Local Machine, Users, and Current Config. Maybe each of them
corresponds to one of your five.

ntuser.dat, UsrClass.dat,

I don't see these, but I didn't migrate from win2000. Maybe that's
why.

Regardless, regedit picks up all of them and if regedit can do it,
maybe COA2 can do it.

but I'm not sure
which ones are which! (Perhaps someone else can clarify)?

(I can't clarify but I can muddle it further! There is a system.dat
file, 8 megs in my case. And User.dat, one meg. But both were last
updated a year ago May. Hmmm. I installed software just last week.
Hmmm. Nothing important has been updated in windows\ directory since
last may, nothing but log files and 5 or 6 others. May 2009 must be
when I transfered my win98 data to XP, which it used to set up winXP
to a large extent.)

I don't understand how it was possible to install some significant software
and NOT update system.dat or user.dat. If you install a program, it adds
that info to the registry, which means it HAS to update system.dat and
user.dat (usually both, but not necessarily). Unless....

If you're not "installing" the program, per se, and are simply copying a
*very* simple and basic program (one that doesn't need the registry services
at all), then I can see how. (We're only talking about some really basic
programs at this level, however).

I used COA on Win9x, but don't recall if I tried it on XP or not. But
as
you said, there's probably a good chance it will work there. I've also
done
the manual regedit search and manually replace approach, which is a bit
tedious.

One win98 version of Norton Utilities included a Registry program that
would look for all occurrences of a given search string, at the same
time. Then iirc, you could change them all at once, or probably just
the ones you wanted. Maybe you couldn't change more than one at once,
but at least you could see them all at once, know how many there were,
and decide which ones are important, and which are just Recently
Viewed, for example.

I lost Norton in my crash, too, although I'm sure i have the CD in one
of the piles of CDs. However I have newer Norton CDs, I bought at
hamfests. ONe is 2003, so it should work with XP, but I can't install
it until I get the other things done and migrate to a newer (2003)
computer, so I don't know what all it has.

I gave up on Norton after around 2001. Too much bloat, that, and all the
horror stories i read about trying to uninstall it, and/or the problems it
was creating on so many systems. Norton was great in its heyday, however.
The only Norton I've got installed here (on my XP system) is the latest
edition of Partition Magic (8.0), because I needed a decent Partition
Manager. But on my Win98SE computer, I still use BootItNG in the
Maintenance Mode only (for partition work), But it is a bit less intuitive,
however.

(I bought Norton versions mostly to get Cleansweep so I could move
programs with that. Some versions have it and some don't.

I had Cleansweep with my Win95 system. Maybe the later version(s) worked
well in Win98 - don't know. But I generally don't use such utilities, and
as for registry cleaners, well, we can save that one for another day. I
don't feel like revisting that one. :-)

Before the
crash I had 8 partitions, because there was a limit on partition size,
so for lack of the ability to plan I had a greater need to move things
than I do now.).

I also think there are some basic registry editors that will do a
search and replace to replace all references of a drive letter (for
example)
with another, but you have to be *very* careful with that. (I think I
did
that before with the drive letter colon attached (like replace "E:" with
"F:" for example), or better yet, "E:\" with "F:\", for example)..

Yes, I can see why caution is needed.

And just to clarify the above, I simply meant using a text search and
replace option - not that there is an explicit drive letter replacement
option in those basic registry editors.

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On 10/02/2010 08:53 AM, FromTheRafters wrote:
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On Fri, 1 Oct 2010 23:16:30 -0400, "FromTheRafters"erratic
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Program that changes drive letter D: to G: for example.

Five or ten years ago I had a freeware program that would scan the
harddisk and find every place where a drive letter of your choosing
was used, like C: or D:, display a list of them, and give you the
opportunity to change some or all of them to some other drive letter.

Does anyone remember the name of that program? Or part of the name.
Or the author's name?

It would look in the registry and all the .bat files and shortcuts and
some other places that didn't come to my mind years ago until I saw
the author had thought of them (and don't come to my mind today
either.)

It had a simple gui, nothing fancy, but did have white squares,
probably with scroll bars where the names of the files appeared each
with a check box probably.

I have a great need for something like this now.

LetterAssigner?

http://www.webtechgeek.com/How-to-Ch...in-Windows.htm

Thanks for replying.

These are sort of the opposite. They allow you to change the letter
assigned to the drive. So an E drive can become an F drive, for
example.

I'm looking for something that leaves the letters assigned to the
drives alone, but changes the references to the drives wherever drive
letters are mentioned in file names, like in dos .bat files, or
shortcut properties, or in the registry where many files are listed by
fully qualified name, D:\windows\something.exe but now D: has changed
to G: and I want to change the name to say G:\windows\something.exe,
that is, I want to change D: to G:.

See what I mean?

I do now. Sorry I misunderstood. You want to edit all references to the
assigned drive letters, not just to change the assigned letters.

If I find something, I'll post back (but don't hold your breath).

I think Norton Utilities for win98 could do that...
it's been a long time since I've used it though

I've found "Registry Cleaners" ugh that have good search and replace
capabilities, and scripts to locate and edit lnk and pif files and such, but
no all encompassing "application" as was requested.

"Bill in Co" wrote in message
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mm wrote:
On Sat, 02 Oct 2010 09:43:36 -0500, philo
wrote:

On 10/02/2010 08:53 AM, FromTheRafters wrote:
wrote in message
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On Fri, 1 Oct 2010 23:16:30 -0400, "FromTheRafters"erratic
@nomail.afraid.org wrote:


wrote in message
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Program that changes drive letter D: to G: for example.

Five or ten years ago I had a freeware program that would scan the
harddisk and find every place where a drive letter of your choosing
was used, like C: or D:, display a list of them, and give you the
opportunity to change some or all of them to some other drive
letter.

Does anyone remember the name of that program? Or part of the
name.
Or the author's name?

It would look in the registry and all the .bat files and shortcuts
and
some other places that didn't come to my mind years ago until I saw
the author had thought of them (and don't come to my mind today
either.)

It had a simple gui, nothing fancy, but did have white squares,
probably with scroll bars where the names of the files appeared each
with a check box probably.

I have a great need for something like this now.

LetterAssigner?

http://www.webtechgeek.com/How-to-Ch...in-Windows.htm

Thanks for replying.

These are sort of the opposite. They allow you to change the letter
assigned to the drive. So an E drive can become an F drive, for
example.

I'm looking for something that leaves the letters assigned to the
drives alone, but changes the references to the drives wherever drive
letters are mentioned in file names, like in dos .bat files, or
shortcut properties, or in the registry where many files are listed by
fully qualified name, D:\windows\something.exe but now D: has changed
to G: and I want to change the name to say G:\windows\something.exe,
that is, I want to change D: to G:.

See what I mean?

I do now. Sorry I misunderstood. You want to edit all references to the
assigned drive letters, not just to change the assigned letters.

If I find something, I'll post back (but don't hold your breath).

I think Norton Utilities for win98 could do that...
it's been a long time since I've used it though

I found something else that can do it, Drive Mapper of Partition Magic
8.

Also PM Drive Mapper is in version 5 and I'm pretty sure 4, though I
don't know if older versions will have a problem with larger
partitions. Should they?

PM8 says it handles FAT and FAT32 partitions up to 160 gigs, but maybe
that wouldn't affect changing drive letters, or maybe it would?????

?? I don't see any logical connection between partition size and
changing the drive letters.

Of course so far, the rest of the drive may be more than 160 gig, but
none of the partitions I use are bigger than that.

Same here. Not much point.

Drive Mapper has 3 options too.
One that just changes the letter,
One for partitions that have been merged
These first two are similar.
One for partitions that have been split. For this option, you can be
more specific than just drive letter. You can give a complete path to
a file or folder, the new name, and it assumes the same path for the
old name, not counting the drive letter.

Drive Mapper from Partition Manager sounds really good.

There is a Drive Mapper 4.0..01 that seems free, but it isn't anything
like the one that PM8 had. In fact, it doesn't seem to work much and
has no help file. Skip this one. (One clue it wasn't the same was
that it needed MS .net framework, which didnt' exist I think when I
got PM8.)

Then I found Drive Mapper as part of Partition Magic, but when I went
either to download it or buy it, they switched to Partition Wizard,
for 113 dollars no less. This is the second time I've found a 3rd
party webpage doing this sort of thing. And Easus had a page about
Partition Magic, didn't figure out why.

( I also don't know if even PM8 will be able to read the XP registry.
Do you think that woudl be a problem? If so, it's a shame Norton
bought it and stopped selling it, when it might have take only small
changes. I could put a phony entry in the registry, for a phony
partition, like M:\test\test, and then see if Drive Mapper finds it
and changes it. )

I've got Norton Partition Magic 8.0 installed on this XP computer, and
have used it on occasion for some partition work, but nothing else. Not
sure what you meant by it's "ability or inability to read the registry",
per se (i.e., it's reading the drive, but using the registry, like any
program does), but it does work on Win XP, if that's what you meant, even
with this 250 GB drive, which has several partitions (but no one partition
is anywhere near 160 GB here, though).

He seems to want a particular drive manager application (he can't remember
the program or the program author's name) that can change drive letter
assignment and all references to a particular drive in the registry *and
elsewhere* so that changing drive letters won't break *any* functionality -
for Win98 and legacy programs (ini files for instance).

"Hot-Text" wrote in message
...
? what are you doing
For I see you are making Software changes to drive letter, will only
work with the System that it made in like XP.
The Software changes to drive letter will not make changes for win98
System if you not running the Software in win98..

For all Hard drives letter or Setup by the Computer at Start up ((( with
one Hard drives ))
Hard drives 0 is C
CD/DVD Rom is D
USB E if running one))

((( with Two Hard drives ))
Hard drives 0 is C
Hard drives 1 is D
CD/DVD Rom is E
USB F if running one))
will always be first, then the System
But you can changes how it Boots in Setup at the Start of the Computer
So you Computer is A? HP, Dell, CompaQ we need to know to tell you to get
to the Setup page!

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/51978

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On 10/02/2010 08:53 AM, FromTheRafters wrote:
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Program that changes drive letter D: to G: for example.

Five or ten years ago I had a freeware program that would scan the
harddisk and find every place where a drive letter of your choosing
was used, like C: or D:, display a list of them, and give you the
opportunity to change some or all of them to some other drive
letter.

Does anyone remember the name of that program? Or part of the
name.
Or the author's name?

It would look in the registry and all the .bat files and shortcuts
and
some other places that didn't come to my mind years ago until I saw
the author had thought of them (and don't come to my mind today
either.)

It had a simple gui, nothing fancy, but did have white squares,
probably with scroll bars where the names of the files appeared
each
with a check box probably.

I have a great need for something like this now.

LetterAssigner?

http://www.webtechgeek.com/How-to-Ch...in-Windows.htm

Thanks for replying.

These are sort of the opposite. They allow you to change the letter
assigned to the drive. So an E drive can become an F drive, for
example.

I'm looking for something that leaves the letters assigned to the
drives alone, but changes the references to the drives wherever drive
letters are mentioned in file names, like in dos .bat files, or
shortcut properties, or in the registry where many files are listed
by
fully qualified name, D:\windows\something.exe but now D: has
changed
to G: and I want to change the name to say G:\windows\something.exe,
that is, I want to change D: to G:.

See what I mean?

I do now. Sorry I misunderstood. You want to edit all references to
the
assigned drive letters, not just to change the assigned letters.

If I find something, I'll post back (but don't hold your breath).

I think Norton Utilities for win98 could do that...
it's been a long time since I've used it though

I found something else that can do it, Drive Mapper of Partition Magic
8.

Also PM Drive Mapper is in version 5 and I'm pretty sure 4, though I
don't know if older versions will have a problem with larger
partitions. Should they?

PM8 says it handles FAT and FAT32 partitions up to 160 gigs, but maybe
that wouldn't affect changing drive letters, or maybe it would?????

?? I don't see any logical connection between partition size and
changing the drive letters.

Of course so far, the rest of the drive may be more than 160 gig, but
none of the partitions I use are bigger than that.

Same here. Not much point.

Drive Mapper has 3 options too.
One that just changes the letter,
One for partitions that have been merged
These first two are similar.
One for partitions that have been split. For this option, you can be
more specific than just drive letter. You can give a complete path to
a file or folder, the new name, and it assumes the same path for the
old name, not counting the drive letter.

Drive Mapper from Partition Manager sounds really good.

There is a Drive Mapper 4.0..01 that seems free, but it isn't anything
like the one that PM8 had. In fact, it doesn't seem to work much and
has no help file. Skip this one. (One clue it wasn't the same was
that it needed MS .net framework, which didnt' exist I think when I
got PM8.)

Then I found Drive Mapper as part of Partition Magic, but when I went
either to download it or buy it, they switched to Partition Wizard,
for 113 dollars no less. This is the second time I've found a 3rd
party webpage doing this sort of thing. And Easus had a page about
Partition Magic, didn't figure out why.

( I also don't know if even PM8 will be able to read the XP registry.
Do you think that woudl be a problem? If so, it's a shame Norton
bought it and stopped selling it, when it might have take only small
changes. I could put a phony entry in the registry, for a phony
partition, like M:\test\test, and then see if Drive Mapper finds it
and changes it. )

I've got Norton Partition Magic 8.0 installed on this XP computer, and
have used it on occasion for some partition work, but nothing else. Not
sure what you meant by it's "ability or inability to read the registry",
per se (i.e., it's reading the drive, but using the registry, like any
program does), but it does work on Win XP, if that's what you meant, even
with this 250 GB drive, which has several partitions (but no one
partition
is anywhere near 160 GB here, though).

He seems to want a particular drive manager application (he can't remember
the program or the program author's name) that can change drive letter
assignment and all references to a particular drive in the registry *and
elsewhere* so that changing drive letters won't break *any*
functionality -
for Win98 and legacy programs (ini files for instance).

Oh, I see. I don't know if such a program exists, although maybe the old
COA "Change Of Address" freebie utility from PC Magazine could have handled
it. (I haven't used COA in ages, like back in the Win95 era).