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noname87@hotmail.com
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      2nd Dec 2008

My computer current has my operating system on the F drive. Is there
an easy way to change this to be the C drive?
 
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> My computer current has my operating system on the F drive. Is there
> an easy way to change this to be the C drive?


If you're using Windows XP, Maybe.


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On Dec 1, 8:58 pm, nonam...@hotmail.com wrote:
> My computer current has my operating system on the F drive. Is there
> an easy way to change this to be the C drive?


Do you have ONE harddrive partitioned into multiple virtual HDs? Or
other physical drives using letters A: thru F:?

 
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      4th Dec 2008
I have two physical harddrives.

On Dec 2, 5:43*am, sillyputty <karmictara...@2die4.com> wrote:
> On Dec 1, 8:58 pm, nonam...@hotmail.com wrote:
>
> > My computer current has my operating system on the F drive. Is there
> > an easy way to change this to be the C drive?

>
> Do you have ONE harddrive partitioned into multiple virtual HDs? Or
> other physical drives using letters A: thru F:?


 
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noname87@hotmail.com
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      4th Dec 2008
Thanks. That is what I thought. I have only had one issue with a
program that automatically installed on the c drive.

On Dec 2, 5:25*am, "philo" <ph...@privacy.net> wrote:
> <nonam...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> news:0d976951-3840-4b6a-8552-(E-Mail Removed)...
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> > My computer current has my operating system on the F drive. Is there
> > an easy way to change this to be the C drive?

>
> No,
> there is no way to change the drive letter of your "system"
> drive.
> You would need to reinstall Windows.
>
> Note: Having Windows installed on a drive other than C: should not hurt
> anything...
>
> On one of my machines it's been on the D: drive for 5 years now
> and have NEVER run into a problem.
>
> NOTE: To change the drive letter of a drive other than your system drive
> can easily be done in "disk management"


 
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