Boot Drive change from G: to C:

[Danny]

I installed XP with a zip drive and the zip is c: I have
tried disconnecting the Zip drive and repair install and
the boot stills stays at g:
How can I change the hard drive letter in XP to C: without
totally formatting and disconnecting the zip and starting
over? It will not let you change it in disk management.

 

[mrtee]

You can try this; Change the System/Boot Drive Letter in Windows http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q223188& or format and reinstall with the Zip disconnected.

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Just my ¢ worth
Jeff
__________in response to__________
| I installed XP with a zip drive and the zip is c: I have
| tried disconnecting the Zip drive and repair install and
| the boot stills stays at g:
| How can I change the hard drive letter in XP to C: without
| totally formatting and disconnecting the zip and starting
| over? It will not let you change it in disk management.
|

 

[mike]

I had a similar problem using two hard drives. I had to
disable the "slave" drive that xp kept installing to in
the bios. That effectively forced it to install on the
master as C. Then I hooked back up the slave drive and
changed the drive letters in conjunction with my CD's.

It reminded me of those games where you had to
slide "tiles" in a certain sequence to get them in order.

 

[Stephen Aldridge]

Thanks for your response Mike.

It sounds like I need to reinstall windows XP pro to sort out this problem.
Can anyone advise me on a couple of things:

How do I reinstall Windows XP pro from an OEM disk?
Is it necessary to reformat the hard drive, and if so, how do I do that?
Will Windows XP Pro be activated using the same key (ie that came with the
disk) - I presume this is specific to the hard disk it is installed on?
I am resigned to backing up all data, but is there a way to reinstall
without having to subsequently reinstall all the applications.
One possible solution is to install a second hard disk (I was thinking of
doing so anyway for back up purposes). If I install the OEM version of XP
Pro on this, copy the data across and uninstall Windows from the original
disk, would this work ( I'm thinking again about whether the activation key
will allow this).

Any advice greatfully received.

Many thanks

Stephen Aldridge

 

[Danny]

Well this is where I at. I change the drive in the
registry like they said. Them rebooted .
Them you could not log on because no valid license. So I
done a repair install and that fix that. So I'm in the
middle of finding the drive letters in the registry and
replacing the drive letters now. This is a long draw out
process. They took the find and replace out.

 

[Danny]

Well this is where I'm at. I change the drive in the
registry like they said. Them rebooted .
Them you could not log on because no valid license. So I
done a repair install and that fixed that. So I'm in the
middle of finding the drive letters in the registry and
replacing the drive letters now. This is a long draw out
process. They took the find and replace out.

 

[mrtee]

A format and reinstall with the Zip disconnected would have been easier.

I did write that you *could* try the method you are using, I had read the process previously and never tried it. Good luck.

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Just my ¢ worth
Jeff
__________in response to__________
| Well this is where I'm at. I change the drive in the
| registry like they said. Them rebooted .
| Them you could not log on because no valid license. So I
| done a repair install and that fixed that. So I'm in the
| middle of finding the drive letters in the registry and
| replacing the drive letters now. This is a long draw out
| process. They took the find and replace out.
|