Drive letter

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Dan Conrad

Did a repair install on a older system -- XP-pro -- 1 g cpu. Seems that
when finished OS is on drive E, not C -- there is no C drive. Any way
to get to OS back to a drive C? Thanks
 
Windows XP itself cannot change the drive letter of the system drive. Other
things like Partition Magic might be able to. I've never used Partition
Magic before though.
 
This can happen when removable drives are attached during the install.
Only way to correctly fix it, is disconnect the removables and reinstall.
 
Thanks -- was afraid that was the answer -- does it matter if the os
drive is left at E? Have not installed many programs on as yet so
thought might be OK?

Note that I did not have any thumb drives installed -- but had copied
the OS from a small drive (which was C) to a large partition on the
current one -- did this with drivecopy which should have then hidden the
C drive -- wanted to simply get rid of the 4G drive as that is too small
to be useful. However, system would not load so did a repair install.
Think the problem was that the other partition on the drive was Drive
F -- therefore OS drive became E?
 
Rather odd "repair install"?!? The OS doesn't care what the drive letter
is as long as you don't change it. The "repair install"??? letter change
may have some effect on previously installed software if any. Anything
installed after the change would reference "E" of course.
 
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