Changing Hard Disk Drive Letter

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Stephen

For some reason when I installed Win XP Home, it assigned
my hard drive the letter I:. Disk management will not
allow me to change it to C:. Can anyone tell me how to
do this. I think there may be a way through DiskPart,
but I can not figure it out. Thanks
 
Bad idea. It's a good thing that Disk Manager is smarter than you and it
didn't let you change the letter or you would have ended up with an
unbootable system. There are utilities out there that will allow you to
change the system drive letter and all the registry references but I doubt
any of them are safe.
 
Changing the drive letter is very difficult to do
in a satisfactory way, getting more difficult the
more the system has been used and had software
installed. My advise is learn to live with I:\
 
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