Hard drive is F: not C:

[Brandon]

When I install WinXP on a system that has a removable drive that is
recognized by the install, it assignes those drives letters C: D: E: and the
hard drive gets assigned the next letter, F:.

Is there anyway to change the Drive letter of your system drive, or do I
just have to re-install windows with the removable discs disconnected?

Thanks

 

[Slippery_one]

When I install WinXP on a system that has a removable drive that is
recognized by the install, it assignes those drives letters C: D: E:
and the hard drive gets assigned the next letter, F:.

Is there anyway to change the Drive letter of your system drive, or
do I just have to re-install windows with the removable discs
disconnected?

Thanks

USE THE FOLLOWING AT YOUR OWN RISK! AND BACK UP THE REGISTRY FIRST!

I had this problem: Used Acronis hard drive migration tool (Migrates
software from old drive to the new drive.

I forgot the rules and put the old drive back in the system couple
months later to get files off it. That's a no no! It took the old
drive and made it C: and the new drive the last letter in the in the
drive list. Removing the old drive did not help. Registry editing
worked great...but! It is not without it's dangers (not working and
disk unusable).

Try using Administrative tools in the control panel applet. Click on
the computer management icon and click the disk management in the list
on the left pane. Try right clicking and shuffling the letters that
way first.

Here's what I had to do as a last ditch effort...
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;223188
It worked

 

[Jon Erlandson]

You can edit the Registry to change the boot drive letter if *it has
changed* but as it was installed this way you'll need to reinstall with the
other devices removed.