changing drive letters

[Vasco Marques]

Hi

I have an installation of windows xp Home edition
My problem is that on installation didnt notice that the
drive letter assign to system intallation was f:
Have worked with this with no major problems until now. I
have a software (palm Desktop manager) that refuses 2
install because he needs a c: drive.
i tried 2 change the f: to c: on disk management but
windows says it cannot change the system drive letter. I
already turned off pagefile.sys and hibernate.sys but he
continues 2 say the same.
I know that if i reinstall SO it would solve the problem
but i prefer not to do it unless it is last resourt.

Apreciate any help.

Thx u all

Best Regards

Vasco

 

[Malke]

Hi

I have an installation of windows xp Home edition
My problem is that on installation didnt notice that the
drive letter assign to system intallation was f:
Have worked with this with no major problems until now. I
have a software (palm Desktop manager) that refuses 2
install because he needs a c: drive.
i tried 2 change the f: to c: on disk management but
windows says it cannot change the system drive letter. I
already turned off pagefile.sys and hibernate.sys but he
continues 2 say the same.
I know that if i reinstall SO it would solve the problem
but i prefer not to do it unless it is last resourt.

AFAIK, the only way to get your Windows installation on the C: drive is
to do a complete clean install.

Malke

 

[mikey]

- Change Disk Drive Letters
I have a ZIP drive installed, XP always assign "C" to it.
I refuse to hack my system(remove the ZIP drive) to satisfy XP.
So here is what I do to change the drive letters.

- Change Disk Drive Letters
First you must remember that you CANNOT change the letter for the
boot drive if it contains the PAGEFILE.SYS (swap file) and/or HIBERFILE.SYS(hibernate file).
To move pagefile.sys use Control Panel | System | Advanced tab | Settings
under Performance | Advanced tab again | Virtual Memory and CHANGE
button. set the drive you want to move FROM to NO Paging File and click on SET.
set the drive you want to move TO and click SET.
To turn off page file, same as above, but select No Paging file and then click the SET button
To disable hiberfile.sys use Control Panel | Power Options Hibernate tab.
THEN REBOOT and check to insure the file(s) are gone. If not try to delete them. If you cannot then the
previous precedure was not performed correctly.
If they are gone then Control Panel | Administrative Tools | Computer Management | Disk
Management under Storage, then RIGHT click on the drive letter to change
and select the Change Letter option.

The drive letter you want to use MUST be available and not assigned to another drive.

THEN following the first procedure set the PAGEFILE.SYS back to the
drive it was on originally.

XP automatically adjusts the registry for the drive letter changes.




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Hi

I have an installation of windows xp Home edition
My problem is that on installation didnt notice that the
drive letter assign to system intallation was f:
Have worked with this with no major problems until now. I
have a software (palm Desktop manager) that refuses 2
install because he needs a c: drive.
i tried 2 change the f: to c: on disk management but
windows says it cannot change the system drive letter. I
already turned off pagefile.sys and hibernate.sys but he
continues 2 say the same.
I know that if i reinstall SO it would solve the problem
but i prefer not to do it unless it is last resourt.

Apreciate any help.

Thx u all

Best Regards

Vasco

 

[Black Fox]

I have an installation of windows xp Home edition
My problem is that on installation didnt notice that the
drive letter assign to system intallation was f:
Have worked with this with no major problems until now. I
have a software (palm Desktop manager) that refuses 2
install because he needs a c: drive.

You mean that you don't have C: letter at all?

i tried 2 change the f: to c: on disk management but
windows says it cannot change the system drive letter. I
already turned off pagefile.sys and hibernate.sys but he
continues 2 say the same.
I know that if i reinstall SO it would solve the problem
but i prefer not to do it unless it is last resourt.

Changing the system's drive letter IMO is possible but it can effect
that OS may stop responding - e.g. MSKB 249321
All that one should do is to modify entries in registry key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevices