Posted by Walden on 02/04/07 13:47

On Sun, 04 Feb 2007 00:12:50 GMT, "SlobbyDon"
<slobby_NIXSPAMdon@mail.ru> wrote:

>Walden wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Just added a new hard drive to my system, and WinXP gave the hard disk
>> that contained my RealPlayer music files a new letter designation:
>> from "H" to "J".
>>
>> The file catalog is fine, still being on the same drive with
>> RealPlayer, and displays normally in the program.
>>
>> The folder where the music files changed from "H:\Music" to
>> "J:\Music", so the program returns an error when I try to select and
>> play a track.
>>
>> I can't find anything in the Help file that will tell me how to tell
>> MusicMatch where the files are now, without starting from scratch.
>> All I want to do is change a drive designation *somewhere*.
>>
>> Please help!
>>
>> Thanks ...
>
>XP is always screwing up my drive assignments. There is a solution, however. Do you want to go the other way and change the drive back to H:?
>
>You can do it by creating a link to "%windir%\system32\diskmgmt.msc" The tool is easy to use, but XP keeps it hidden from the GUI, probably because the average user isn't savvy enough to avoid accessing files on the drives he is trying to remap.


Thanks for your help!

I'm simply amazed that it's not an option in RealPlayer itself, since
your previous "XP is always screwing up my drive assignments" can't be
all *that* unusual ...

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