hard drive not assined to C:

[jdcollns]

I recently installed winxp home and found it assigned my
hard disk to letter "F". How can I change it to C:?

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi,

You don't. You can't change the drive letter that is assigned to the system
partition without wiping and starting all over again. The *only* time this
can be done is if it is changed by accident using some disk utility, and
then you *must* change it back in order for things to function properly.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x

Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone

 

[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.


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I recently installed winxp home and found it assigned my
hard disk to letter "F". How can I change it to C:?

 

[Ron Sommer]

Should this advice have the "Backup before proceeding" warning?
--
Ron Sommer

- 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.

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I recently installed winxp home and found it assigned my
hard disk to letter "F". How can I change it to C:?

 

[Alex Nichol]

I recently installed winxp home and found it assigned my
hard disk to letter "F". How can I change it to C:?

You will have to start over. This seems to arise if you have a ZIP
drive connected at the time of setup (and possibly some other similar
external drives), so do a reinstall of the system after booting the XP
CD direct, with such things physically unplugged (not merely with no
cartridge).. Enter Setup, and after the license agreement take New
Install. When it asks you to confirm where, hit ESC; select and delete
the current partition and make a new RAW one to be formatted at the next
stage. IN this case I might make *quite* sure by rebooting after doing
the deletion so that there could be no possibility of any association of
it with F.