Changing drive letters

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I have two hard disks. One jumpered to primary holding Win 98SE. 80 Gig. The
other jumpered to slave holding Win XP Home 250 Gig. installed from a legal
OEM CD Rom. The Win XP Home shows the drive as 'F' instead of 'D' as I think
it should be. I also have two CD drives which should be 'E' and 'F'. I also
have an external Freecom usb drive which shows correctly as 'G'. 'How do I
change drive letters please.
TIA.
Classic
 
Start>Run>compmgmt.msc Under Storage, select disk management. Then select
drive, rt click , change drive letter
 
Dixonian69 said:
Start>Run>compmgmt.msc Under Storage, select disk management. Then select
drive, rt click , change drive letter
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Thank you Dixonian 69, But when I get to the 'Change drive letter screen'
and try to make 'F' 'D' it says, "Cannot modify drive letter of your system
volume or boot volume". Where do I go next please.
TIA.
Classic 42
 
Please post your boot.ini file. Also, your current drive letter assignment.
You mention XP Home as "F" but also CDROM as "F"? DO you have dual boot?
 
This is probably your easiest and best option!!!
Shutdown. Disconnect your CDROMS and USB drive. Reboot. Windows will
reassign drive leters. Shutdown. Reconnect CDROMS and USB. Restart.
 
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Classic 42 said:
Thank you Dixonian 69, But when I get to the 'Change drive letter
screen' and try to make 'F' 'D' it says, "Cannot modify drive letter
of your system volume or boot volume". Where do I go next please.
TIA.
Classic 42
Click to expand...

You can't change the boot volume drive letter. The registry would then point
to the wrong locations.
And don't dismantle your system, it won't change the boot drive enumeration.

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You can't change the boot volume drive letter. The registry would then point
to the wrong locations.
And don't dismantle your system, it won't change the boot drive enumeration.

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Thank you Michael for your input. I did delve into the innards of my PC
Click to expand...
and did as Dixonian 69 suggested to no good result. The drive letters are
still wrong for me. The other prob. I have is that when I boot the screen
shows Three OS's; XP Home, XP Home and Win 98SE. Only the first XP Home
works. How do I rid myself of the second? When I installed Win XP Home on
my
250 Gig HDrive I could only install as NTFS and not FAT 32 which I use on
Win 98SE. Can I change NTFS back to FAT 32 somehow or will I have to
format
the 250 Gig drive and re-install, possibly after making a smaller
partition
to take Win XP Home. Come to that can I have two OS's on the same 250 Gig
disc? And if so how would I get into Win 98 SE.
As you can see I am rather inexperienced but willing to learn.
Thank you
Classic
 
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