hard drive labeling

[Guest]

im having some problems after upgrading cpu and hard drive and installing
windows xp home. on my computer tower i have many extra drives such as a sd
pro reader and a cf/microdrive. After the reinstall of windows it has
asigned a drive label of i: to my hard drive and a c: to my usb drive on the
front panel. I have tried to change the label letter in disk management
because i want the hard drive set to c: drive but it wont let me. Can anyone
help me PLS. It would be greatly appreciated

 

[Guest]

The only way that happens is when you have other hds installed during the
windows xp installation.Thier is no possible way to change the OS letter
after
installation & work properly.Disconect all add on hds,other misc,reinstall
xp by
booting to xp cd.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

im having some problems after upgrading cpu and hard drive and
installing windows xp home. on my computer tower i have many extra
drives such as a sd pro reader and a cf/microdrive. After the
reinstall of windows it has asigned a drive label of i: to my hard
drive and a c: to my usb drive on the front panel. I have tried to
change the label letter in disk management because i want the hard
drive set to c: drive but it wont let me. Can anyone help me PLS.
It would be greatly appreciated

You can change the drive letter of any drive *except* the one Windows is
installed on. The only way to get the hard drive to C: is to reinstall
Windows cleanly, making sure all the "many extra drives" are disconnected
until after Windows is installed.

But there's really no particular reason that Windows has to be on C:. If I
were in your shoes (and I'm actually in very similar shoes; Windows is
installed on F: here), I would just leave it as it is, and not worry about
it.