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To: Dan Duchardt who wrote (9974)1/18/2000 11:32:00 PM
From: wily  Respond to of 14778
 
>>It seems odd to me that the OS doesn't allow you to control the drive designations. With all the shortcuts and path specific references hidden in a lot of installed software, this is a potential nightmare.<<

From ZP's post, I guess NT has some capability to do this. Also, if you get PartitionMagic it comes with a utility called DriveMapper that takes care of that stuff automatically. I own it but don't use it (lazy) -- even though I swap drives around a lot.

Here's what the first few screens of the program look like:
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