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    Hi All, I have 4 partitions in my hard disc c: , d: , f:, g: i want to change the drive letter g: to e: ... i tried but i got a message that "changing drive letter may lead to data loss" .. is it so.. please help me changing the drive letter...... Thanks, Vimal

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      Hi All, I have 4 partitions in my hard disc c: , d: , f:, g: i want to change the drive letter g: to e: ... i tried but i got a message that "changing drive letter may lead to data loss" .. is it so.. please help me changing the drive letter...... Thanks, Vimal

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      Jonathan Darka
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      You might get problems if you have any installed software on G: (i.e. in a ProgramFiles folder), otherwise you should be ok, but you should consider backing up the drive first.


      Jonathan Wilkes Darka[Xanya.net]

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        You might get problems if you have any installed software on G: (i.e. in a ProgramFiles folder), otherwise you should be ok, but you should consider backing up the drive first.


        Jonathan Wilkes Darka[Xanya.net]

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        So... If i change the Drive letter the data in that drive will be lost..... ?

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          So... If i change the Drive letter the data in that drive will be lost..... ?

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          You won't lose data (files, folders etc), but if you have applications installed on that drive, they probably won't run. This is because the installation will have written entries to the registry that contain paths to the executables in those applications, and if you change the drive letters then the paths will no longer be valid.

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            You won't lose data (files, folders etc), but if you have applications installed on that drive, they probably won't run. This is because the installation will have written entries to the registry that contain paths to the executables in those applications, and if you change the drive letters then the paths will no longer be valid.

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            Zoltan Balazs
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            You could try to use Powerquest's Drive Mapper. It's for these situations when you change drive letters and want to preserve installed applications.

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              You could try to use Powerquest's Drive Mapper. It's for these situations when you change drive letters and want to preserve installed applications.

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              Don't tell me, tell the OP!

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