Boot drive letter

[Mike Frisina]

I recently installed XP Professional to a replacement
60gb hd on a laptop. The drive was installed as "E"
instead of "C". The disk management utility will not
allow me to change the boot disk drive letter. Why did
this happen and how can I get the primary drive to be "C"?

 

[Joseph Conway [MSFT]]

It happened because something still had the C letter in MountedDevices in
the registry most likely. Do you have something else currently listed as C?
If so, you could rename the C to Z, rename the E to C and you might be ok.

 

[mikey]

- Change Disk Drive Letters
First you must remember that you CANNOT change the letter for the
boot drive if it contains the PAGEFILE.SYS (swap file) and/or HIBERFILE.SYS(hibernate file).
To move pagefile.sys use Control Panel | System | Advanced tab | Settings
under Performance | Advanced tab again | Virtual Memory and CHANGE
button. set the drive you want to move FROM to NO Paging File and click on SET.
set the drive you want to move TO and click SET.
To turn off page file, same as above, but select No Paging file and then clickthe SET button
To disable hiberfile.sys use Control Panel | Power Options Hibernate tab.
THEN REBOOT and Control Panel | Administrative Tools | Computer Management | Disk
Management under Storage, then RIGHT click on the drive letter to change
and select the Change Letter option.

THEN following the first procedure set the PAGEFILE.SYS back to the
drive it was on originally.

XP automatically adjusts the registry for the drive letter changes.
the reboots are important



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I recently installed XP Professional to a replacement
60gb hd on a laptop. The drive was installed as "E"
instead of "C". The disk management utility will not
allow me to change the boot disk drive letter. Why did
this happen and how can I get the primary drive to be "C"?

 

[Hans-Georg Michna]

I recently installed XP Professional to a replacement
60gb hd on a laptop. The drive was installed as "E"
instead of "C". The disk management utility will not
allow me to change the boot disk drive letter. Why did
this happen and how can I get the primary drive to be "C"?

Mike,

please have a look at
http://www.michna.com/kb/WxDriveLetterChangeSystemPartition.htm.

Hans-Georg

 

[Michael Stevens]

I recently installed XP Professional to a replacement
60gb hd on a laptop. The drive was installed as "E"
instead of "C". The disk management utility will not
allow me to change the boot disk drive letter. Why did
this happen and how can I get the primary drive to be "C"?

If you had a Zip drive connected when you installed XP, you will need to
remove the Zip drive and reinstall.
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