Changing drive letter back to C:

[someone]

fThe drive letter on my disk got changed to D:. Windows 2000 will still boot
and logon OK, however nothing will run properly. I know you can't change the
system volume letter normally, but I can't get into the utility to change
drive letters anyway.
How can I change the drive letter back to C:?

 

[philo]

fThe drive letter on my disk got changed to D:. Windows 2000 will still boot
and logon OK, however nothing will run properly. I know you can't change the
system volume letter normally, but I can't get into the utility to change
drive letters anyway.
How can I change the drive letter back to C:?

Explain *exactly* how you managed to change it to D:

 

[John John]

How to restore the system/boot drive letter in Windows
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/223188

John

 

[3c273]

Explain *exactly* how you managed to change it to D:

I'm not the OP but I recently had this happen when the disk migration
program that came with a new hard drive crashed half way through the
process. Apparently the program changed the system drive letter to allow the
new drive to be the c drive. I didn't even know this was possible at the
time. Freaked me out until I found this:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/223188

Louis

 

[philo]

:?

I'm not the OP but I recently had this happen when the disk migration
program that came with a new hard drive crashed half way through the
process. Apparently the program changed the system drive letter to allow the
new drive to be the c drive. I didn't even know this was possible at the
time. Freaked me out until I found this:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/223188

Louis

I once did a disk clone

but did not remove the original drive when I rebooted...

then, when I did remove the original drive...
the cloned system worked perfectly ...however it had a drive letter other
than C:

 

[someone]

OK, well long story short - I was trying to make a backup of my hard drive
cause I knew it was going to fail (it would periodically stop spinning). I
managed to copy nearly every file onto it, but then I had to start Windows
2000 on the backup drive to grab some extra files, but noticed the backup
drive was D: and the original was C:. Stupidly enough, I changed C: to F: and
then tried to change D: to C:. Of course, it didn't work and I restarted so I
ended up with two hard drives, neither of them C: and neither able to change
it back.

But following those steps, I was able to change them both back to C: and now
both are working fine. Thank you very much.