drive letters

When I currently llok at my WinExplorer then the drive letters appear NOT alphabetically sorted. Drive W:\ eg. comes above drive C:\ and D:\ How can I tell WinExplorer to sort the drives alphabetically? Peter

I'm doing a Windows 7 tutorial. In it I'm imaging a Windows 7 Virtual Machine. I rebooted the VM and booted from my physical WinPE CD. The book SPTK 70-680 (Ian McLean) gives pretty good instructions but I have different drive letters than what’s in the book. The book says to enter...

First off I like to say I like this forum so Im posting here.:D I am having a problem with my network places being over crowd on winows 7, Vista, an XP machines. I woul like to get ri of all the broken an duplicate folders. Heres the story, I have a media server in one room. Over the years...

Hi, I have just replaced XP with Windows 7. I unplugged the old system disk and put in a new one in the same place, and then removed all its partitions with the Windows 7 installer and set up from scratch. The system disk is always a primary master on the motherboard ATA controller. I have...

Hello , My question is as followed : In My Computer , my drives initially had a designations like C: D: , now when I go into My Computer , they have miraculously disappeared > So now I can see my drives but none of them have a Letters next to them. Might there be any reason for this ...

Alright, so my Windows 7 recently quit assigning drive letters automatically. I frequently plug in new hard drives to the system using various USB to IDE or SATA adapters and now when I plug in a new hard drive with any of these USB adapters, it does not get a drive letter assigned to the...

I use a custome made programm which works only when the system hard drive shows up as "Disk0" and the RAID-0 disk (based on PCI-E card) appeares as "Disk1". I've just upgrated my OS from Windows XP Pro to Windows 7 Pro (hardware configuration is the same). After the first reboot the system...

I have a laptop with twin HDDs and I have Vista on the C: partition on Drive 1. I created a new partition G: on Drive 2 and, while Vista was running, inserted the Win 7 disc and started installation to G:. All went perfectly and I have retained my original partitions with drive letters and...

I see numerous CD/DVD threads here and mine is similar but somewhat different from any of the others, so I will start an additional thread. I have a home built computer with a Biostar 945GZ Micro 775 Motherboard (Intel 945GZ an ICH7/R chipset), Pentium D 830 3GHz Processor, 2 GB ram, 250 GB...

My computer won't boot into XP or 7 anymore after adding/remvoing extra hard drive I have 1 hard drive 3 partitions: 1 XP (C) 2 7 (E) 3 Documents (X) I plugged in an extra ide hard drive to see what was in it, after unplugging it, all of my drive letters became messed up so the windows...

hi guys... i have vista sp2 OS installed(this prob is same in win7 too),on my dell studio 1737 laptop...it has 2 hdd options,my primary hdd is 320GB n secondary one is 500GB (purely for data,movies,songs). when i install OS,n in my computer it takes 500GBs hdd 1st drive as D drive.n then 320GBs...

Hello, September last year I purchased a pc magazine with Windows 7 RC on it. I dual booted with XP & everything worked fine. When I started up XP, My Computer stated that XP was on C:, my DVD Drive was D: & Windows 7 was E:. When I started up Windows 7, My Computer stated that Windows 7 was...

If you have too many partitions or a daemon tools hosted virtual drive frozen or anything this article: Link Removed can help you.Drive letters can have a common problem as several of us experienced it. Tought that this may be helpful to someone.

I never noticed this until today when I went to add more space to the Windows 7 drive on my disk. Even though I had Windows XP and then installed Windows 7 my computer shows Windows 7 as Drive C and Windows XP as Drive D. I have no idea how this occurred since i presumed Windows 7 would auto...

I have an old XP machine with a C: drive, two CD drives (D: and E: ) and a hard drive with three partitions (F:, G:, and H: ). I just got a new Gateway 4300 Windows 7 machine. It currently has a C: drive and a single DVD/CD drive (D: ). I would like to move my second drive from the old...

I need to add to my question.. I have windows 7 and use virtual cd. I have numerous learning programs for my 3 yr old that virtual cd inserts all of them at once using a snapshot with this program. Along with the current short cuts for the programs on desktop I now have shortcuts to the drives...

Hello, i have dualboot os. win xp pro and win7 ultimate. my original partitions letters is like that: c-win xp d e f-win7 after i installed win7, when im using win7 the partitions letters had change: f become c - win7 c become d -win xp d become e e become f when im using win xp all...

Alright...I loaded a retail version of 7 this morning (at home). No problems it seemed. I already had 3 partitions, two of which had operating systems, one XP Pro 64 bit and the other the rtm of 7 and one was strictly for files (the windows section had been removed previously). When the new os...

My computer had Vista Ultimate on Drive C, and XP Pro on Drive D (dual boot). I wanted to upgrade to Windows 7, and couldn't upgrade from Vista Ultimate to Windows 7 Professional (which is what the Action Pack CD is). I purchased Laplink PcMover Update and ran it on the XP installation then...

RUNNING WINDOWS 7600 RTM. acer m5641- q6600 4gig ram-ati 4650- all drivers are installed. Everything works except flashdrives. I plug the drive in and windows detects it and seems it as a flash drive- yet media player 12 only reports it as u3 not as the flsh drive, for some reason windows media...