Hi,
You have to reinstall, as there is no way to change the drive letter
assigned the system volume. You also will, as you suggested, need to
rearrange the hardware in the proper configuration before doing so.
--
Best of Luck,
Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Windows help -
www.rickrogers.org
"choro-nik" <choro-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Windows XP has assigned drive letter F to my fairly new Samsung master
> hard disk on which I briefly had Windows ME installed before buying
> Windows XP OEM (but unbranded). I use and MSI motherboard and AMD Athlon
> CPU and an ATI Radeon graphics card.
>
> I had copied my user files to the old Maxtor slave drive HD which used to
> be my D drive but now it has become my C drive for some reason. So I have
> C and F for my 2 HDs with D and E being my CD and DVD drives respectively.
>
> Tried reassigning letters to the two HDs but no luck as Win XP won't allow
> the master drive which has Windows XP on it to be assigned a new letter.
>
> Please note that my old D drive HD was FAT32 formatted but in the meantime
> I dragged and dropped all my old user files onto my new master Samsung HD
> F. I then NTFL formatted the old drive and re-dragged and dropped my old
> user files back to the old Maxtor drive. No problems there at all.
>
> But I find it very irritating and confusing that Windows XP and my Program
> files being on a drive that has been assigned the letter F.
>
> How can I resolve this problem so that I have the normal C and D letters
> assigned respectively to my master and slave HD drives? What if I
> physically disconnected my slave HD and reinstall Win XP? Or would I then
> lose access to those files?
>
> --
> choro-nik
> *******
>
Similar Threads
