Drive Letter Change

[George]

I have just loaded Windows XP onto a new system. I have
three optical drives, one Zip drive & two 80.0Gb HDD's
each paritioned in two. The partition with Windows XP was
labelled as G: Drive by the systm. I am trying to change
it to C: Drive.

I have used Disk Management to change the naming of the
other drives to a more logical sequence but Disk
Management does not allow me to change G: Drive to change
to C: Drive. Message as follows:

"Windows can not modify the drive letter of your system
volume or boot volume"

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

 

[S.Sengupta]

Hello,
This happens if you have a Zip drive present when
installing XP.Start with it disconnected and delete the exsisting XP
partition and recreate a fresh/new partition and proceed.
Also see:-
Please see:-HOW TO: Change the System/Boot Drive Letter in Windows [Q223188]
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=223188
it's a KB Article for Win2k but you can apply the same.
regards,
ssg MS-MVP
pronetworks.org

 

[Alex Nichol]

I have just loaded Windows XP onto a new system. I have
three optical drives, one Zip drive & two 80.0Gb HDD's
each paritioned in two. The partition with Windows XP was
labelled as G: Drive by the systm. I am trying to change
it to C: Drive.

I have used Disk Management to change the naming of the
other drives to a more logical sequence but Disk
Management does not allow me to change G: Drive to change
to C: Drive. Message as follows:

"Windows can not modify the drive letter of your system
volume or boot volume"

It is not practical to change once the system is set up - that G is in
far too many registry entries. You can either live with it, or start
over, deleting and formatting the partition and reinstalling - this time
without the ZIP drive present, which seems to be the cause of this
happening. Install the ZIP once the system is running.