How to give a disk a drive letter - System Admin Discussion Boards

Re: Does Anyone Know What the Quoted Text Means?

Richard Deeming7-Jun-16 1:21

7-Jun-16 1:21

In Windows Explorer, click "View -> Options" to bring up the Folder Options dialog box. In the "View" tab, under "Advanced settings", select "Show hidden files, folders and drives".

While you're in there, make sure the "Hide extensions for known file types" option is un-ticked.

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- Homer

Re: Does Anyone Know What the Quoted Text Means?

xiecsuk7-Jun-16 3:00

xiecsuk

7-Jun-16 3:00

Thanks for that. Looked at the hidden folders, but didn't learn much other than it is correct - those files are not there.

Re: Does Anyone Know What the Quoted Text Means?

Richard MacCutchan7-Jun-16 3:25

Richard MacCutchan

7-Jun-16 3:25

If you have administrator access then you should be able to see all hidden directories. I can go straight into C:\ProgramData on my system.

Re: Does Anyone Know What the Quoted Text Means?

xiecsuk7-Jun-16 3:36

xiecsuk

7-Jun-16 3:36

Yes, I did go straight into C:\ProgramData on my system. As I said, the files cmd.exe was trying to find weren't there.

Re: Does Anyone Know What the Quoted Text Means?

Richard MacCutchan7-Jun-16 3:42

Richard MacCutchan

7-Jun-16 3:42

It sounds more and more like your system is in a mess. you have one of two options:
1. Keep struggling on trying to find out what is happening with no real idea of where these ghost processes are coming from, or what else might bite you in the future.
2. Do a proper clean install and ensure that you have a stable running system.

I would strongly suggest option 2.

Re: Does Anyone Know What the Quoted Text Means?

xiecsuk7-Jun-16 4:35

xiecsuk

7-Jun-16 4:35

I hear what you are saying but Win10 and my apps are working exactly as I would expect them to. I am tempted to just ignore the error messages and continue for the time being. After all, they are not causing me any problems that I can tell. I can't face having to install everything from scratch again until I have to.

Re: Does Anyone Know What the Quoted Text Means?

Cornelius Henning7-Jun-16 5:20

Cornelius Henning

7-Jun-16 5:20

Quote:
I would strongly suggest option 2

I agree. Considering the time he already spent, he probably could have done a clean install by now! Smile | :)

Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!

How to give a disk a drive letter

xiecsuk20-May-16 0:15

xiecsuk

20-May-16 0:15

I have had a new system built but I didn't include any hard drives; I moved them over from my old machine. Everything seems to be good as far as they are concerned. Win10 boots OK off the C: drive; all my other apps open successfully off C:; and my data is available on the D: and E: drives.
However, I had a SSD installed in the new machine onto which I intend to transfer the WIN10 image on my current C: drive. However, although the SSD is displayed in the BIOS list of drives and in Computer Management\Device Manager\Disk Drives, it is not displayed as a drive letter in File Explorer.
Does anyone know how I can get it recognised by File Explorer?

Re: How to give a disk a drive letter

Nathan Minier20-May-16 1:43

Nathan Minier

20-May-16 1:43

I'm not 100% sure that Win10 has the disk management util, but I expect that it would.

Here's the steps that work in 7/8
1. Open MMC as admin
2. File -> "Add/Remove Snap-In..."
3. Select "Disk Management"
4. Select the drive
5. Right-click and choose "Change Drive Letters and Paths..."

It's pretty self-explanatory at that point.

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- Benjamin Disraeli

Re: How to give a disk a drive letter

xiecsuk20-May-16 2:37

xiecsuk

20-May-16 2:37

Thank you for your help. I couldn't perform stage 5 but I did manage to find a way to format the drive correctly and set a drive letter at the same time. I can now transfer my existing system onto it when I am ready.

Re: How to give a disk a drive letter

Richard Deeming20-May-16 2:02

Richard Deeming

20-May-16 2:02

xiecsuk wrote:
I had a SSD installed in the new machine onto which I intend to transfer the WIN10 image on my current C: drive.

You might want to take a look at AOMEI Partition Assistant[^] - it apparently includes a wizard to do precisely that. Smile | :)

"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer

Re: How to give a disk a drive letter

xiecsuk20-May-16 2:17

xiecsuk

20-May-16 2:17

That is exactly what I was intending to use but I have had trouble downloading it. I got the error message “The signature of the file is corrupt or invalid” and it didn't complete the download. I am in contact with AOMEI about it.

EDIT
AOMEI are telling me that I need to use a browser other than Win Explorer to download it. It downloaded perfectly with Chrome.

modified 7-Jun-16 8:00am.

Syntax error:invalid regular expression:/^[/: unterminated character class in jenkins

HPVinod16-May-16 21:05

HPVinod

16-May-16 21:05

I have installed jenkins uing Tomcat and Installtion successdul However I am not able to perform any operation after that, on submission of form it is giving below error.

"Syntax Error:Invalid Regular Expression:/^[/: Unterminated character class "

Please help me here how to debug or get solution

Windows 10 upgrade vs. re-install ?

Maximilien11-Apr-16 8:23

Maximilien

11-Apr-16 8:23

We, the office, will start upgrading our computers OS to Windows 10.

We are not certain if doing an upgrade is enough or if we need to do a full re-install in regards to our current windows licenses ?

If I do a simple in-place upgrade my machine, I assume that Windows 10 will check that i have a proper license (product key) when it activates itself.

If I want to do a full re-install (reformat and reinstall everything), I assume I will need to have my Windows 7 product key and enter it at some point ?

Thanks,

Max.

I'd rather be phishing!

Re: Windows 10 upgrade vs. re-install ?

Wombaticus29-Apr-16 4:58

Wombaticus

29-Apr-16 4:58

Yes - though I do recall seeing some articles about how to get around the PK issue - though it hardly seems worth the effort. It's easier to use the key, and there is a simple VBA script to extract it from your OS if you need to.

How to do a Clean Install of Windows 10, the Easy Way[^]

SOLVED - Edge Favorites

Richard Andrew x646-Feb-16 6:25

Richard Andrew x64

6-Feb-16 6:25

ANSWER:

Starting in in Windows 10 Insider Preview build 10565, your favorites in Microsoft Edge are now stored in an ESE database file instead of the previous Favorites folder.[^]

-----------------------------------------------------
Does anybody know where Microsoft Edge stores its favorites?

I googled, and the following location came up:

C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe\AC\MicrosoftEdge\User\Default\Favorites

However, on my system this folder is empty even though I have hundreds of favorites imported from IE. I already did "attrib -h *.* /s" so I know the files are not hidden.

So where does Edge store its favorites?

The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.

modified 6-Feb-16 13:01pm.

Change IP Address

C-P-User-329-Jan-16 18:13

C-P-User-3

29-Jan-16 18:13

How do I change my IP Address ?

I have watched 3 videos on YouTube which Purport to describe this procedure.

I have asked in the lounge.

I have looked on the "Forum" sections which my ISP has.

I have asked Google, Bing, and somebody else, I forget.

So far, all answers have been wrong. What they tell me does not work.

I welcome an answer that actually does work.

Even more so if it works, oh, once a week or so.

Re: Change IP Address

Richard MacCutchan29-Jan-16 22:26

Richard MacCutchan

29-Jan-16 22:26

Which IP address are you referring to; a local one within your private home network, or a public one assigned by your ISP?

Re: Change IP Address

C-P-User-329-Jan-16 23:07

C-P-User-3

29-Jan-16 23:07

Richard MacCutchan wrote:
Which IP address are you referring to; a local one within your private home network, or a public one assigned by your ISP?

I believe the answer is: The public one assigned by my ISP

e.g., the address you get from sites such as IP Chicken[^]

Re: Change IP Address

Richard MacCutchan29-Jan-16 23:26

Richard MacCutchan

29-Jan-16 23:26

You believe? It would help to be sure. However, if that is the one that is assigned by the ISP then there is no way to change it, as they are dynamically allocated. You can apply for a fixed address for which you probably have to pay a premium. This was already explained in response to the same qwuestion you posted in the Lounge.

Re: Change IP Address

C-P-User-329-Jan-16 23:32

C-P-User-3

29-Jan-16 23:32

Okay, I am sure.

It's the one that shows up in IP Chicken[^]

Okay, so, if the ISP assigns it, even though it is called "dynamic", it really isn't.

True ?

Re: Change IP Address

Jochen Arndt29-Jan-16 23:53

Jochen Arndt

29-Jan-16 23:53

It's called dynamic because it is changed frequently (e.g. every 24 hours).

Re: Change IP Address

Richard MacCutchan29-Jan-16 23:56

Richard MacCutchan

29-Jan-16 23:56

No, it is dynamic in the sense that it is allocated automatically by the ISP's systems. And you, as their customer, have no control over it.

Re: Change IP Address

C-P-User-330-Jan-16 7:30

C-P-User-3

30-Jan-16 7:30

Richard MacCutchan wrote:
...you, as their customer, have no control over it...

Bingo.

Is it really so horrible for Joe Normal to want a different address each week ?

Every day would be really nice.

That used to be the way it worked. No clue why they make us all sitting ducks today.

Re: Change IP Address

Peter_in_278030-Jan-16 14:27

Peter_in_2780

30-Jan-16 14:27

Bounce your router. When it comes back, odds are your ISP will give you a different IP address.

Cheers,
Peter

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