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change drive letters

10 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/change-drive-letters.80328/

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sumigizlov Original post #1
Feb 15, 2008 at 12:20 PM
After a reconfiguration of boot loader in suse linux
two of my drives swapped their drive letters in WINDOWS XP SP2 (weird)
now i can not reassign the drive letters as the disk management utility in control panel fails to start and gives error " service execution failed"
so can u suggest any third party windows based software for achieving the task i have searched the internet and found nothing:(:confused::confused:
slugger
slugger #2
Feb 15, 2008 at 1:08 PM
in all likelyhood ur disk manager dll has go unregistered
open command prompt and type in this

Win2003
regsvr32 C:\WINDOWS\system32\dmdskmgr.dll

Win2000
regsvr32 c:\winnt\system32\dmdskmgr.dll

any other ver os win asearch for the file and put in the actual path with the regsvr32 command
it will register the dll file

check out these

once that is done take alook at these threads

*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/showthread.php?t=79525
*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/showthread.php?t=77430#7
S
Feb 15, 2008 at 6:31 PM
registering of the dll has not solved the problem
the same error is displayed
and two threads are useless
are their any third party utilities that can get the job done
slugger
slugger #4
Feb 15, 2008 at 6:34 PM
can you post a screenshot of the error message

bcos it looks like your disk management program is not wirkin properly
r2d2
r2d2 #5
Feb 15, 2008 at 7:11 PM
Looks like your partition table have some inconsistencies, can you post the output of fdisk verify(v) and print(p) command.
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khattam_ #6
Feb 15, 2008 at 8:09 PM
With partition magic, you can remap those drives with their original drive letters..
S
Feb 16, 2008 at 11:30 AM
it says unable to connect to logical disk manager service
but the logical disk manager and administrative services are running
slugger
slugger #8
Feb 16, 2008 at 11:42 AM
BTW is the message "Server execution failed!" [r u able to read the screenie :rolleyes:]

is ur server service runnin?

also check if Logical disk Manager administrative service is runnin (different from Logical disk Manager service)
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khattam_ #9
Feb 18, 2008 at 11:12 PM
it says unable to connect to logical disk manager service
but the logical disk manager and administrative services are running

faced a similar problem in a fren's computer few days back and cud not fix it.. when i tried to partition with OpenSuse installation, it failed to write to the partition table, saying the partition table was read-only.. this was strange.. at last I had to backup data and repartition the whole disk to fix the problem... wud like to know if any other alt is possible, in case i face similar problem again...
saqib_khan
Feb 18, 2008 at 11:41 PM
Well, then guys y do u install linux?

Ye parkar mujhe ek sikh mili hai ki linux kabhi mat dalo.

Stick with ur windows guys.