Drive letter & desktop icons

[Joe Mango]

Can anyone tell me how to (1) Change the drive letter for the boot drive?
When I installed Win XP Home it gave the boot drive an "F" designation. It
has not been a problem until I had a problem with setup.exe from EA Sports
crashing and not allowing the installation to continue. I was told by their
Tech Support that changing the drive designation to "C" would correct this.
Windows however will not allow the boot drive to change. Is there anyway
around this other than reinstalling the OS? (2) Remove the "shortcut arrow"
from my desktop icons? I did this once, but can't for the life of me
remember how or where I did this. Thanks!

 

[Wesley Vogel]

Joe;

1) I'm not gonna touch this one. )

2) TweakUI.

Tweak UI for Windows XP Guide
http://www.winxpsolution.com/Tweakuixppro.aspx

[+] Explorer
Prefix "Shortcut to" on new shortcuts
[[When this is enabled the phrase "Shortcut to" will be appended to the
beginning of newly-created shortcuts. ]

[+] Explorer | Shortcut
[[This is a system-wide setting. There are 4 types of shortcut icons that
can be used (arrow, light arrow, none and custom). Please note that changing
the shortcut overlay may cause some icons to lose any custom positions.]]

Microsoft PowerToys for Windows XP
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/powertoys.asp
Tweak UI
TweakUI.exe
http://download.microsoft.com/downl...a6-b352-839afb2a2679/TweakUiPowertoySetup.exe

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Remove the arrow (Shortcut Overlay) from your desktop shortcuts.
http://www.jsiinc.com/SUBA/tip0400/rh0499.htm

Remove shortcut arrow from desktop icons
http://www.tweakxp.com/display.aspx?id=106

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

One cannot change the boot partition letter without
performing a "clean install" of Windows XP.

Drive Letters Change Unexpectedly When You Install Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;326683&Product=winxp

The Windows XP CD is bootable and contains all the tools necessary
to partition and format your drive. Follow this procedure and allow
Windows XP to partition and format your drive:

NOTE: It would be best to physically disconnect all your peripheral hardware
devices, except the monitor, mouse and keyboard, before installing XP.

NOTE: If you have an internal Zip Drive installed, physically disconnect the
EIDE and power cable to it before proceeding, otherwise your main
hard drive may not be assigned the customary C: drive letter.
After installing Windows XP, you may then reconnect it.

1. Open your BIOS and set your "CD Drive as the first bootable device".

===> Accessing Motherboard BIOS
===> http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/bios_manufacturer.htm

2. Insert your Windows XP CD in the CD Drive and reboot your computer.
3. You'll see a message to boot to the CD....follow the instructions.
4. The setup menu will appear and you should elect to delete all the existing
Windows partitions, then create a new partition, then format the primary
partition (preferably NTFS) and proceed to install Windows XP.

5. Clean Install Windows XP
http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html

[Courtesy of Michael Stevens, MS-MVP]

6. ==> Immediately after installing Windows XP, turn on XP's Firewall.
==> http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/

7. After Windows XP is installed, visit the Windows Update website
and download the available "Critical Updates".

8. After installing the critical updates, be sure and visit the support website
of the manufacturer of the computer to download and install any
available Windows XP compatible drivers, such as video adapter
and audio drivers.

9. If you happen to run into any installation difficulties, use the following resources:

How to Troubleshoot Windows XP Problems During Installation
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;310064

Troubleshooting Windows XP Setup
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_setup.htm

[Courtesy of MS-MVP Kelly Theriot]


--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

Be Smart! Protect your PC!
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/

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| Can anyone tell me how to (1) Change the drive letter for the boot drive?
| When I installed Win XP Home it gave the boot drive an "F" designation. It
| has not been a problem until I had a problem with setup.exe from EA Sports
| crashing and not allowing the installation to continue. I was told by their
| Tech Support that changing the drive designation to "C" would correct this.
| Windows however will not allow the boot drive to change. Is there anyway
| around this other than reinstalling the OS? (2) Remove the "shortcut arrow"
| from my desktop icons? I did this once, but can't for the life of me
| remember how or where I did this. Thanks!
|
|

 

[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 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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[Guest]

I used this advice very successfully. I would only add the comment that after installing Windows XP, you should reboot, enter BIOS, and change the boot sequence once again to put the hard drive as first in the boot sequence. Continue the boot, shut down, and then reconnect the Zip Drive, that was disconnected prior to installation process. Then proceed with the rest of the steps

----- Carey Frisch [MVP] wrote: ----

One cannot change the boot partition letter withou
performing a "clean install" of Windows XP

Drive Letters Change Unexpectedly When You Install Windows X
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;326683&Product=winx

The Windows XP CD is bootable and contains all the tools necessar
to partition and format your drive. Follow this procedure and allo
Windows XP to partition and format your drive

NOTE: It would be best to physically disconnect all your peripheral hardwar
devices, except the monitor, mouse and keyboard, before installing XP

NOTE: If you have an internal Zip Drive installed, physically disconnect th
EIDE and power cable to it before proceeding, otherwise your mai
hard drive may not be assigned the customary C: drive letter.
After installing Windows XP, you may then reconnect it

1. Open your BIOS and set your "CD Drive as the first bootable device"

===> Accessing Motherboard BIO
===> http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/bios_manufacturer.ht

2. Insert your Windows XP CD in the CD Drive and reboot your computer
3. You'll see a message to boot to the CD....follow the instructions
4. The setup menu will appear and you should elect to delete all the existin
Windows partitions, then create a new partition, then format the primar
partition (preferably NTFS) and proceed to install Windows XP

5. Clean Install Windows X
http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.htm

[Courtesy of Michael Stevens, MS-MVP

6. ==> Immediately after installing Windows XP, turn on XP's Firewall
==> http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect

7. After Windows XP is installed, visit the Windows Update websit
and download the available "Critical Updates"

8. After installing the critical updates, be sure and visit the support websit
of the manufacturer of the computer to download and install an
available Windows XP compatible drivers, such as video adapte
and audio drivers

9. If you happen to run into any installation difficulties, use the following resources

How to Troubleshoot Windows XP Problems During Installatio
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;31006

Troubleshooting Windows XP Setu
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_setup.ht

[Courtesy of MS-MVP Kelly Theriot


--
Carey Frisc
Microsoft MV
Windows XP - Shell/Use

Be Smart! Protect your PC
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------


| Can anyone tell me how to (1) Change the drive letter for the boot drive
| When I installed Win XP Home it gave the boot drive an "F" designation. I
| has not been a problem until I had a problem with setup.exe from EA Sport
| crashing and not allowing the installation to continue. I was told by thei
| Tech Support that changing the drive designation to "C" would correct this
| Windows however will not allow the boot drive to change. Is there anywa
| around this other than reinstalling the OS? (2) Remove the "shortcut arrow
| from my desktop icons? I did this once, but can't for the life of me
| remember how or where I did this. Thanks!
|
|