Change Drive Letter of system boot drive

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My old C: Drive crashed and I replaced it.

O installing windows it got renaned G: and drive letters were assigned to my
other drives. I have renamed the other physical drives to be consistent with
the others in the office. (eg E: is always for data storage.)

Problem, I want the main hard drive on which the system is mounted to be C:
instead of G: so that the layout is parallel with the other computers in the
office too.

Windows Disk Manager says I cannot reassign the Drive lettter of this drive
since it has the windows system file on it.

How do I rename. Is there a utility that will do it. I have already
installed some software on the machine. Maybe I was supposed to rename via a
command prompt before anything had been installed (even windows). Even
partion magic says that reassigning the drive letter may cause my system to
not boot.

Any help would be appreciated.

AK
 
Hi,

You can't. The drive letter assigned the system partition is permanent. You
would have to start over, this time detaching the device that got the C
designation (usually a removable drive like a zip drive).

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
 
Ok Thanks so much

AK



Rick "Nutcase" Rogers said:
Hi,

You can't. The drive letter assigned the system partition is permanent.
You would have to start over, this time detaching the device that got the
C designation (usually a removable drive like a zip drive).

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
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"Rick \"Nutcase\" said:
Hi,

You can't. The drive letter assigned the system partition is permanent. You
would have to start over, this time detaching the device that got the C
designation (usually a removable drive like a zip drive).
Click to expand...
Partition magic might help. I had the same problem..it assigned F: for
my operating system..bummer.
 
Nope. Partition Magic will reassign but it gives warning that Windows might
not boot. I gave it the "what the heck" and sure enough Windows did not
boot. I ended up doing a clean install of WinXP in which I deleted the
offending partition and formatted again (thins time with all pirepheral
drives disconnected) and the new install assigned the correct drive letter
C:.

Lucky for me I had not installed very many programs before I ran into this
"problem".

AK
 
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