Changed drive letter and now disk is messed up

[Jay]

All:

I had a hard disk with two partitions 'C' and 'F'. Everything worked
fine. The partitions were created with Partition Magic.

I renamed the 'F' partition to 'D' using Windows XP's Disk Manager. Now
if I click on the 'D' drive in Windows Explorer I get an error message
saying the drive is not formatted.

Suggestions?

Jay

 

[Andrew E.]

If you changed to D: then what happened or where is youre cd drive,by
default its given D:..Either way,youre xp error message is correct (D: still
asigned to cd),hence it is unformatted.To change,go to run,type:regedit
In regedit,expand:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/software/microsoft/windows/set-
up/open sourcepath.L.click on the cdrom or rw that shows in my computer,go
to edit,modify,set the letter as it shows in my computer,exit when thru,open
the other listing & do the same,close out regedit when thru..

"Jay" wrote:

> All:
>
> I had a hard disk with two partitions 'C' and 'F'. Everything worked
> fine. The partitions were created with Partition Magic.
>
> I renamed the 'F' partition to 'D' using Windows XP's Disk Manager. Now
> if I click on the 'D' drive in Windows Explorer I get an error message
> saying the drive is not formatted.
>
> Suggestions?
>
> Jay
>

 

[Jay]

Andrew E. wrote:
> If you changed to D: then what happened or where is youre cd drive,by
> default its given D:..Either way,youre xp error message is correct (D: still
> asigned to cd),hence it is unformatted.To change,go to run,type:regedit
> In regedit,expand:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/software/microsoft/windows/set-
> up/open sourcepath.L.click on the cdrom or rw that shows in my computer,go
> to edit,modify,set the letter as it shows in my computer,exit when thru,open
> the other listing & do the same,close out regedit when thru..

No, my CD drive was labeled 'X'.

I ran the freeware utility 'testdisk'. It was able to locate and fix
the 'D' partition. When I rebooted, 'chkdsk' ran and was able to
resurrect most of my files.

I guess the moral is don't use Partition Magic and Disk Manager together.

Jay