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This is REALLY WEIRD! i had to restart my computer and after i restarted my computer drives changed!….i have an external HD and it was the (G:) drive….now after restarting my computer….it was completely changed to (F:) drive!…..what is happening!…..this is REALLY bad because all my program files are G:/program files/XXXXXXX….so all my programs are not working exept for a few!
…please help!….all the software from the shortcuts and start menu arent working!……i also have tried accessing my old (G:) drive but i get an error message…


There is only 1 way to solve this!
Pay a technician $40 to fix that tiny little problem. LoL, uhm sorry but I guess you would need a re-image if there's nothing we can do. Wait a couple of days to see if Locu or someone else can help you. I dunno how to help you man… hopefully everything goes smoothly for you. 
BTW, one way to eliminate that problem is to download less. Yes yes, I know. There are so many stuff you want to download right? GAOTD, dot.Tech freebies, there's too much! > <
Though, if you don't download much… then good, keep that habit. 
~Joji~
Joji said:
BTW, one way to eliminate that problem is to download less. Yes yes, I know. There are so many stuff you want to download right? GAOTD, dot.Tech freebies, there's too much! > <
Though, if you don't download much… then good, keep that habit.
~Joji~
Well how can i resist…i have 1 tb HD sitting there and i havent even use 25% of it!
My 1TB is networked so it's slow :(
Try this:
Right Click on My Computer
Select Manage
Select Disk Management
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For a Fixed Disk:
Select it
Right click
Select Change Drive Letter and Path
Click on the Edit button
Enter in the letter you want to use
For a Removable Disk which sound like what you want:
In the lower, right hand panel, right click on the Disk or CD ROM
#
Select Change Drive Letter and Path
Click on the Edit button
http://forums.techguy.org/windows-xp/447808-remapping-drive-letters.html
PCbasics said:
Thanks i will try this but another way to do that might take FOREVER is changing all the shortcuts to the right drive…..
???? What does that mean???
What is "another way to do this"? Why would you change all the shortcuts? (And you'd never find all of them!)
Locutus said:
…is that your solution to every problem?
But remember, I said "if there's nothing else we can do to help"… and I even said "wait for the other techies to help you out". Mhm!
~Joji~
Offline@Joji: I've finally come to the conclusion that you're simply trying to boost your post count… Nice.
@PCbasics:
What were you doing before the restart? (If you don't mind me asking)… That might help figure out why windows changed your drive letter assignment. I don't mean to alarm you but if it happens again, I wouldn't trust your external HD too much… Also If you could provide some info on the partition management of your drives it could help also.
Gioneo said:
@PCbasics:
What were you doing before the restart? (If you don't mind me asking)… That might help figure out why windows changed your drive letter assignment. I don't mean to alarm you but if it happens again, I wouldn't trust your external HD too much… Also If you could provide some info on the partition management of your drives it could help also.
to tell you the truth i dont even remember exactly why i had to restart but there was a pop up that said something like "you need to restart your computer…….stuff i dont remember/didnt even read…..do you want to restart now? (yes/no)
____________
Partion?..is this the partion???!

*i have no idea what a so called partion is……
Gioneo said:
@Joji: I've finally come to the conclusion that you're simply trying to boost your post count… Nice.
@PCbasics:
What were you doing before the restart? (If you don't mind me asking)… That might help figure out why windows changed your drive letter assignment. I don't mean to alarm you but if it happens again, I wouldn't trust your external HD too much… Also If you could provide some info on the partition management of your drives it could help also.
I'm just trying to help k? PCbasics is my friend, but I just really don't know what to do other than technician. Well, obviously the "technician part" is the last approach if all else fails. Though, I did tell him to becareful when downloading. I mean, if you don't need it, why would you download and install it then? You never know if it would affect your computer greatly!
~Joji~
Locutus said:
That's just a look at the partition or full drive. A partition is a section--so if I were to make my external drive have 4 icons appear that each hold 250GB, then I would have 4 partitions. You haven't partitioned yours.
Have you tried the steps I posted yet?
well i couldnt follow the steps exactly….cause i followed exactly what it said until the button part….
"Click on the Edit button Enter in the letter you want to use"
…..and what does it mean when it says "For a Fixed Disk:"….whats the so called fixed disk??!!10
Offline@PCbasics:
You might want to consider partitioning (splitting) your external HD. For example from the pic you posted I can already tell that most likely you have two internal drives, one with partitions C and D (recovery) and the other one G… With your external HD being F…
Although…
You also might have a single internal drive with 3 partitions C,D and G; but if that were the case windows would not have assigned your external HD as the G partition in the first place. So my money's on the former ( "Local Disk" is somewhat a give away also
).
OfflineJoji said:
Locutus said:
…is that your solution to every problem?
Mhm… I'm not that techie like you are Locutus. Remember your'e probably 20 years old, I'm still 14. I'm the youngest here on dot.Tech. The secound youngest would probably be Con009 who's 18 right now; last year of high school!
~Joji~
In England we have to go to Primary school when we are 4, there are six year groups and we leave there at the age of about 11 or 10. Then we go to a Secondary school and stay there for years 7,8,9,10 and 11 until we are about 16 (i leave now and im 15 but i turn 16 in august so im ok) Then once we leave Secondary school, we can either get a job or we can go into further education, so we can go to college and do more learning and get better qualifications, and then if we want to go further, we can go to university.
Thats how it works here.
@PCBasics: I know your problem, it looks like you might have to take Locutus' advice, thats the easiest way to do it:
Right Click on My Computer
Select Manage
Select Disk Management
Then Select Storage
Then go into either Removable Storage Or Disk Management It could be in either one
Select it your disk
Right click
Select Change Drive Letter and Path
Click on the Edit button
Enter in the letter you want to use
For a Removable Disk which sound like what you want:
In the lower, right hand panel, right click on the Disk or CD ROM #
Select Change Drive Letter and Path
Click on the Edit button
Thats the easiest way to fix it, plus if you know how to do it yourself, you'll feel more confident about doing stuff like this.
@Locutus: I hope you don't mind i just slightly, like two words added in to your original quote to further explain it and go into more detail, just to try and help out.
Cheers,
Conn
I had the same problem with my TB drive. The letter got switched and now very few of my programs run. I have the same problem as PCbasics because the letter I need is not there either. Also, this happened to another one of my drives (a smaller 8GB flash drive). I did not partition the disk either and my drive is now basically useless. I just wanted to say, PCbasics, you're not alone.
Oh and by the way,
Joji said:
I'm the youngest here on dot.Tech.
I'm 13.
OfflinePCbasics said:
OK…..this is the problem. I followed the directions until the part where it says "Enter the letter you want"….. the letter that I NEED is not there!…
…..so now what??i cant type it in or anything!
Okay? Or do i need to explain, just say if you need more.
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