Changing drive letter

[Roman King]

Due to some problems with my computer, WinXP Pro was re-installed.
Unfortunately, its drive letter came out to be "F", not "C".
I could not change F into C in Disk Management.
It might need to work at the registry, I guess.
Could someone tell me how.? TIA. Roman

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Due to some problems with my computer, WinXP Pro was re-installed.
Unfortunately, its drive letter came out to be "F", not "C".
I could not change F into C in Disk Management.
It might need to work at the registry, I guess.
Could someone tell me how.? TIA. Roman

You can't change it, short of reinstalling Windows from scratch.

But it doesn't matter. There should be no problem with its being F: As
a matter of fact, it happens to be F: on my computer here, and it
works just fine.

 

[Ted]

You can't change it, short of reinstalling Windows from scratch.

But it doesn't matter. There should be no problem with its being F: As
a matter of fact, it happens to be F: on my computer here, and it
works just fine.

I have just installed xp pro that came with my computer..I have never
used a m/s product before but I needed to install it as my new mobile
nad a software suite that needs xp...I installed in on the first
partiton of my hd but on installing the software suite it fails as it
tells me it cannot see H: and is looking for c:..Any idea what I can do
as I am a complete newcomer to xp..

 

[stoner]

You can't change it, short of reinstalling Windows from scratch.

But it doesn't matter. There should be no problem with its being F: As
a matter of fact, it happens to be F: on my computer here, and it
works just fine.

What about.....................
Control Panel|Administrative Tools|Computer Management|Disk Management

Right click the partition you want to rename, select "Change Drive
Letter.." ??

 

[Bruce Chambers]

What about.....................
Control Panel|Administrative Tools|Computer Management|Disk Management

Right click the partition you want to rename, select "Change Drive
Letter.." ??

If you'd ever tried that, you'd have known that it will not work on the
system partition/disk.


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[Ken Blake, MVP]

What about.....................
Control Panel|Administrative Tools|Computer Management|Disk Management

Right click the partition you want to rename, select "Change Drive
Letter.." ??

Nope. You can change the drive of any partition there *except* the one
Windows is installed on.

 

[stoner]

Nope. You can change the drive of any partition there *except* the one
Windows is installed on.

Thanks a lot to all for the info...My Linux grub entry show windows at
hd0,0 which is c:...I am not an xp person and only installed it cos
my new mobile phone has a software suite that only runs in Windows and
it picks up my drive as h: and will not install...Funnily enough the
other software on the cd that only deals with music transfer installed
without error..I have emailed SonyEricsson for an answer so will see
what gives...

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Thanks a lot to all for the info...

You're welcome. Glad to help.