Drive Letter Change after XP Pro Installation

[Craig]

How do I change the drive letter of a boot/system
partition under XP Pro? DiskPart and DiskManager can not
change the drive letter of a system or boot partition. I
could do this operation under NT without much difficulty.
XP assigns F: to the partition in question, C: is
available and I would like to make the change but I can
not.
THANKS!

 

[Karl]

Goto Control Panel, Administration Tools,Computer
Management, Disk MAnagement. Right click the drive you
wish to change and select Change Drive letter and Paths.
This changes all registry entries as it goes. I have used
it quite often with no negative effects.

Karl

 

[Doug Knox MS-MVP]

Karl,

XP will not allow you to change the boot or system drive letter, via Disk
Management. Period.

 

[Craig]

This will not work for the system or boot partition under
XP, as I stated in the post.

 

[davetest]

This will not work for the system or boot partition under
XP, as I stated in the post.

Craig,
see this KB article:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;223188&Product=win2000

It's for win2k. I've actually used in successfully in win2k.
Not sure if it's 100% good in XP or not, but the registry entries seem
to match...
Dave

 

[mikey]

- 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 clickthe SET button

To disable hiberfile.sys use Control Panel | Power Options Hibernate tab.

THEN REBOOT and 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.

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.

the reboots are important.



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How do I change the drive letter of a boot/system
partition under XP Pro? DiskPart and DiskManager can not
change the drive letter of a system or boot partition. I
could do this operation under NT without much difficulty.
XP assigns F: to the partition in question, C: is
available and I would like to make the change but I can
not.
THANKS!