The hard drive Vista is on is drive J: It was assigned that letter as I
originally had multiple operating systems on this computer. Those other
operating systems are now gone leaving me with just Vista. I know I can
reassign the drive letter back to C: again but will it have any adverse
affects?

Any problems with the boot loader if I do?

Anything that doesn't use %system root% for reference & goes by drive letter
will give you problems, or programs that refer to data by drive letter.
Might be more trouble than it's worth.

Bob


"david manvell" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> The hard drive Vista is on is drive J: It was assigned that letter as I
> originally had multiple operating systems on this computer. Those other
> operating systems are now gone leaving me with just Vista. I know I can
> reassign the drive letter back to C: again but will it have any adverse
> affects?
>
> Any problems with the boot loader if I do?

Hi,

Um, no you can't just rename it C:, not unless it was C: originally and got
changed by some foul up. The only way to safely change the system or boot
drive letters is by a clean installation. The bootloader will not be the
only problem if you do, there are tens of thousands of pointers in the
system registry and other files that would be affected.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"david manvell" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:11FD47B4-2EFA-47F4-AE2F-(E-Mail Removed)...
> The hard drive Vista is on is drive J: It was assigned that letter as I
> originally had multiple operating systems on this computer. Those other
> operating systems are now gone leaving me with just Vista. I know I can
> reassign the drive letter back to C: again but will it have any adverse
> affects?
>
> Any problems with the boot loader if I do?

Where did you ever get that idea?

You can not even begin to change the system partition from J: to C:

Every single program and utility from the operating system itself, to any
you have installed, has many thousands of pointers that say that something
was installed to J:\Program Files\whatever (or something similar). That is
where the operating system and the installed programs expect to find that
which it needs to function.

I guess if you want to spend a couple of weeks working 24/7 you could edit
the registry and change everything over to reflect them to partition C: -
but I doubt that "anyone" has ever attempted to do so.

Then you have all the pointers in the installation files themselves, along
with the uninstallers that are compiled at the time of installation. They
all point to partition J: also.

What a mess you would have trying to do what you know can be done.

--

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience


"david manvell" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:11FD47B4-2EFA-47F4-AE2F-(E-Mail Removed)...
> The hard drive Vista is on is drive J: It was assigned that letter as I
> originally had multiple operating systems on this computer. Those other
> operating systems are now gone leaving me with just Vista. I know I can
> reassign the drive letter back to C: again but will it have any adverse
> affects?
>
> Any problems with the boot loader if I do?

On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 23:38:00 -0700, david manvell
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> The hard drive Vista is on is drive J: It was assigned that letter as I
> originally had multiple operating systems on this computer. Those other
> operating systems are now gone leaving me with just Vista. I know I can
> reassign the drive letter back to C: again


No, you can't. You can change the letter of any drive *except* the one
Windows is installed on.

The only way to get it to be C: is to reinstall Windows cleanly.

On the other hand, you can just leave it as J:, and not worry about
it. Mine (for a different reason) is H:. There's really no problem
with that.


> but will it have any adverse
> affects?
>
> Any problems with the boot loader if I do?

--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience
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"david manvell" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:11FD47B4-2EFA-47F4-AE2F-(E-Mail Removed)...
> The hard drive Vista is on is drive J: It was assigned that letter as I
> originally had multiple operating systems on this computer. Those other
> operating systems are now gone leaving me with just Vista. I know I can
> reassign the drive letter back to C: again but will it have any adverse
> affects?
>
> Any problems with the boot loader if I do?


Leave as is. If you want C: then you will have to install Vista "clean"
[And - usually - put it on the first/primary partition of the primary drive
(also called drive zero). Note: you can change the 'active' partition to a
second 'primary' type partition and this will then be considered C: but
that's probably more friggin around than most people want to get into].

Saucy