Change boot drive letter....from H to C

[Kenny S]

For some reason when XP was installed on a machine, it installed on a
partition the first parition of a primary drive but it was given the letter
H.

Is there a way to change it to C? It cannot be done from the disk managment
console...

I tried with partition magic on a virtual machine but it appears as if its
not working

any ideas?

 

[Rock]

For some reason when XP was installed on a machine, it installed on a
partition the first parition of a primary drive but it was given the letter
H.

Is there a way to change it to C? It cannot be done from the disk managment
console...

I tried with partition magic on a virtual machine but it appears as if its
not working

any ideas?

That commonly happens if a Zip drive is attached when the install was
done. As a general matter you cannot make that change, except by doing
a clean install.

 

[Clark Griswold]

That commonly happens if a Zip drive is attached when the install was
done. As a general matter you cannot make that change, except by doing a
clean install.

And when you reinstall make sure *only* the drive you want to put Windows on
is connected.

 

[Mikhail Zhilin]

"HOW TO Change the System Boot Drive Letter in Windows"
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q223188

Not a simple work though, and with unpredictable result: a little
mistake -- and Windows becomes unbootable...

But why you want to change this letter? Unaccustomed -- yes. But no
problems having it H: (more than two years I supervise several
installations with the letters up to K -- if you have no specific
programs (BTW -- usually that means badly written program) which can't
work on the drive other than C:.
--
Mikhail Zhilin
http://www.aha.ru/~mwz
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