Recently I added a secondary 30 gig drive for video editing. Instead of F-disking, I used the installation software that came with it.
My primary drive is partitioned at 4/16.
They were named C and D.
In the process the newly added drive became D, and my 16 gig partition on the original drive became E.
From there, the obvious problem of software uninstallation.
Control panel method, the options are grayed out.
As far as the sotware, the Uninst.isu is still there, It just wont launch because of the drive letter issue.
Any easy fixes?
Thanks in advance
Drive Letter Designation
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The problem is that your new drive was set up as a primary partition. Assuming you don't have anything loaded on your new disk yet, go back into fdisk, delete the primary partition on your second drive, and create an extended partition instead. Then use all of the space to create a logical drive. When you reboot, your old drive will still be C and D, and your new drive will be drive E. Format drive E and you're all set. 
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B0b's suggestion would work. Jim's solution is correct.
Adding a drive and/or partitions can often result in problems due to 'drive' letter changes. Beyond Jim's excellent advice, there are a couple other things that may be of interest when changing the computer drive configuration.
You can 'force' a specific letter to be assigned to your CD drives - and prevent it being changed.
For those times you want to move folders or files from one drive (or folder) to another, the previous shortcuts and registry entries will still point to the old location. Rather than manually making changes or uninstalling/reinstalling, there is a neat little 'freebie' to help.
It is called 'ChangeOfAddress' (COA) and can be downloaded from
http://www.zdnet.com/downloads/stories/info/0,,000OD7,.html
Basically, you tell COA the old and new paths and it searches for references to the old and changes them to the new location. Very handy when you are reorganizing or repartioning.
--Everett<FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Everett Cox on 03 May 2001 at 12:28 AM.]</p></FONT>
Adding a drive and/or partitions can often result in problems due to 'drive' letter changes. Beyond Jim's excellent advice, there are a couple other things that may be of interest when changing the computer drive configuration.
You can 'force' a specific letter to be assigned to your CD drives - and prevent it being changed.
For those times you want to move folders or files from one drive (or folder) to another, the previous shortcuts and registry entries will still point to the old location. Rather than manually making changes or uninstalling/reinstalling, there is a neat little 'freebie' to help.
It is called 'ChangeOfAddress' (COA) and can be downloaded from
http://www.zdnet.com/downloads/stories/info/0,,000OD7,.html
Basically, you tell COA the old and new paths and it searches for references to the old and changes them to the new location. Very handy when you are reorganizing or repartioning.
--Everett<FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Everett Cox on 03 May 2001 at 12:28 AM.]</p></FONT>
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Eddie Stephens
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Many thanks to Jim, and to all for the help.
Jim was exactly right regarding this situation.
Your directions worked perfectly, and all of the drive letters and partitions are in the right order.
By the way FYI, anyone trying to do multitrack audio or DV editing, would certainly do well by adding a secondary drive to their system. Hard drives are relatively inexpensive these days.
Data streaming off the secondary drive makes life a whole lot easier.
Jim was exactly right regarding this situation.
Your directions worked perfectly, and all of the drive letters and partitions are in the right order.
By the way FYI, anyone trying to do multitrack audio or DV editing, would certainly do well by adding a secondary drive to their system. Hard drives are relatively inexpensive these days.
Data streaming off the secondary drive makes life a whole lot easier.