HDD set to drive F instead of drive C

[NewsJunkie]

Recently I re-installed Windows XP home edition from scratch and after
having done so, I noticed my only hard disk drive was assigned the drive
letter of "F".

Can anyone advise me on how to change it to "local drive C:" ?

I really need to change this so I can install the rest of my applications.

Please help....


Jim

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Recently I re-installed Windows XP home edition from scratch and after
having done so, I noticed my only hard disk drive was assigned the drive
letter of "F".

Can anyone advise me on how to change it to "local drive C:" ?

I really need to change this so I can install the rest of my applications.

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[Onsokumaru]

Recently I re-installed Windows XP home edition from scratch and after
having done so, I noticed my only hard disk drive was assigned the drive
letter of "F".

Can anyone advise me on how to change it to "local drive C:" ?

I really need to change this so I can install the rest of my applications.

Please help....


Jim

Why do you need to change it?

It won't affect the applications you install. They will operate normally.
They will be installed to F:\Program Files by default.

There is a way, I'm sure someone will point you in the right direction, as I
can't recall it off-hand.

 

[Tony Sutton]

It won't affect the applications you install. They will operate normally.
They will be installed to F:\Program Files by default.

Some programs are hardcoded to look to drive C. If it don't find drive C, it
will error out.

 

[NewsJunkie]

Well, it is good to see that someone understands the problem I have been
running into since this problem has occurred. I am not able to change the
drive in which the PROGRAMMER decided he wanted the program installed on.

Thanks Tony,

Jim

 

[Onsokumaru]

Maybe if you *stated* the problem you might get better answers.

I've never come across such a program and would probably be looking for an
alternative, (my system drive is I.

If a programmer is to lazy or ignorant to find the system path there is no
telling what else they haven't bothered to do in the program.

 

[John John]

In that case you will have to reinstall Windows. You cannot change the
drive letter unto which Windows is installed.

John

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Some programs are hardcoded to look to drive C. If it don't find drive C, it
will error out.

Although what you say is true, this is *much* less common than it used
to be. It used to be fairly common back in the days when it was very
rare for anyone to have a hard drive or partition other than C:, but
even then, it was only poorly-written programs that did this. As a
matter of fact, I haven't run across such a program in years.

I have Windows, and all my programs, installed on F: and have had *no*
problems doing so.