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

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.

"mm" wrote in message
...

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

mm wrote in
:

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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.

Ahhh. You FINALLY listened and spent 10 quid on a new used
drive, huh?

Sigh.


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On Fri, 1 Oct 2010 23:16:30 -0400, "FromTheRafters" erratic
@nomail.afraid.org wrote:


"mm" wrote in message
.. .

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?

"mm" wrote in message
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On Fri, 1 Oct 2010 23:16:30 -0400, "FromTheRafters" erratic
@nomail.afraid.org wrote:


"mm" wrote in message
. ..

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).

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
...

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

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

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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

Here's another...
http://www.funduc.com/app_mover.htm

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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.

Here's another...
http://www.funduc.com/app_mover.htm

This one does a similar function, which could also be important. I
have in the past considered doing what this does, but I never did it.

"Application Mover is a tool that relocates installed programs from
one path to another on your hard disk. Application Mover takes files
found in the path specified in the 'Current Path' field (see below)
and moves them to the 'New Path' path. Application Mover scans the
windows registry for references to files located in the 'Current'
field and changes those references to the 'New' path. Application
Mover also scans all windows shortcuts in the Start Menu and adjusts
path references to the new program location. Finally, *.ini and
Install.log files present in the original program path are checked for
strings matching the old path location. If found, these strings are
changed to the new location. Confirmation dialogs are available if you
enable the 'Confirm changes' checkbox (see below). If a file is 'busy'
and cannot be changed to the new location, a reboot prompt is offered.
Pending changes are then completed after the reboot."

This doesn't just amend the references, it moves the program itself.
I might need that, but I had in mind not moving the program, ONLY the
references, for times when adding another partition changed the drive
letters, and I didn't want to use Letter Assign to change the drive
letters back the way they used to be.

Maybe he could put in a switch to eliminate the program moving, and
then it would do both functions.

One issue with this. It moves every file in a user-specified "old
path". That seems to me to mean that every program in the "program
files" direcotry would have to be moved at once, or each program would
have to be moved separately.

OTOH, COA2, isn't program-driven. It's drive driven, so it only runs
once and finds, we hope, every reference to the old drive, because
it's not about moving programs but about a system-wide change of a
drive letter.

Some versions of Cleansweep also did something like Application Mover.
It uninstalled a proram and allowed you to reinstall it. Then they
decided, Hey, you can reinstall it on a different drive, and maybe in
any folder on that drive.

I have this on their CD but haven't reinstalled it since my hard drive
failed, either on 98 or XP.

Actually, one description of the first one COA2, at
http://marmro.homeip.net/Description/coa2.zip.html , says it does the
same thing, moves programs, but i'm sure that is wrong:
DESCRIPTION:
COA2, an update of PC Magazine's Change of Address utility, lets you move a program to a new location without breaking it. When you install a program under Windows, the system builds a web of connections that make it difficult to move the program anywhere else. If disk space constraints force a move, or if adding a new device causes drive letters to change, the system can lose track of essential files. References to the program are stored in shortcuts, INI files, and the system registry. COA2 tracks down all references to the old address and replaces them with the new address. When the changes are complete, it presents you with a list of changes and gives you the option to undo any of them, if necessary. Note that COA2 does not actually move any files.

See, this contradicts the first sentence.

It reports moves and name changes to the system.

I don't know what this means. It doesn't just report, and it doesn't
know what has changed. It finds and changes references to the
original drive letter reference or fully qualified name reference. It
reports name changes that COA2 itself has changed, not what something
before it changed.

This new version offers Windows 2000 support, and an improved user interface.

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.

You know, on second thought, changing the letter assigned to the drive
has a lot going for it. It's a shorter procedure, no scanning of the
harddrive, only have to change 2 or more entries, up to the number of
drives at the most.

But I still want to have COA2 and even Application Mover, because of
the versatility they give.

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.

Right.

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

You can't tell me what to do. I'm holding my breath right now.

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

I have that. I'll look. But first I have to fix my multi-boot. Right
now I can't get into win98, as people who noticed my earlier thread
may know. Maybe today that will get done. (I run the same instances
of Agent and Eudora from both 98 and XP.)