change drive letters

sumigizlov · 15-02-2008, 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

slugger · 15-02-2008, 01:08 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

How to change drive letter?
drive letter..

sumigizlov · 15-02-2008, 06:31 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 · 15-02-2008, 06:34 PM

can you post a screenshot of the error message

bcos it looks like your disk management program is not wirkin properly

r2d2 · 15-02-2008, 07:11 PM

Looks like your partition table have some inconsistencies, can you post the output of fdisk verify(v) and print(p) command.

khattam_ · 15-02-2008, 08:09 PM

With partition magic, you can remap those drives with their original drive letters..

sumigizlov · 16-02-2008, 11:30 AM

it says unable to connect to logical disk manager service
but the logical disk manager and administrative services are running

slugger · 16-02-2008, 11:42 AM

BTW is the message "Server execution failed!" [r u able to read the screenie

]

is ur server service runnin?

also check if Logical disk Manager administrative service is runnin (different from Logical disk Manager service)

khattam_ · 18-02-2008, 11:12 PM

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Originally Posted by sumigizlov

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...