T
T. Hendrix
I replaced my boot disk and the new drive comes up as
F:... How do I change it to c:?
F:... How do I change it to c:?
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Nathan McNulty
Right click on My Computer, click Manage, click Disk Management, right
click on the F: drive and click Change Drive Letter and change it to C:
Nathan McNulty
click on the F: drive and click Change Drive Letter and change it to C:
Nathan McNulty
J
Jetro
If you installed Windows on F: already, then reinstall it properly. Just
search any hardware/setup group for the right procedure in Dave Patrick's
hints.
search any hardware/setup group for the right procedure in Dave Patrick's
hints.
G
Guest
If Windows works fine and all the applications are running, then leave it alone.
Third party utilities and lots of time will get you to where you want to be: do you really need to waste the time, given everything is running fine.
If not go ahead and buy Partition Magic and Drive Image and read how to create, merge, move and image partitions: very carefully.
You cannot reassign the System Drive [now F in your case] to another drive letter [C as you would want] using a Windows XP utility. The Operating System prevents this as it is a process which effectively renders the system useless - all the file locations / associations etc in registry will refer to 'F' as the drive letter and reassignment of F to C will not get registry to make automatically this change. Thus even if you could change the drive letter your system would fail to load.
Third party utilities and lots of time will get you to where you want to be: do you really need to waste the time, given everything is running fine.
If not go ahead and buy Partition Magic and Drive Image and read how to create, merge, move and image partitions: very carefully.
You cannot reassign the System Drive [now F in your case] to another drive letter [C as you would want] using a Windows XP utility. The Operating System prevents this as it is a process which effectively renders the system useless - all the file locations / associations etc in registry will refer to 'F' as the drive letter and reassignment of F to C will not get registry to make automatically this change. Thus even if you could change the drive letter your system would fail to load.
G
Guest
The reason for wanting to set it to c: is I have a
application that will not load.... I double click the
setup utility, which used to install it when I had a c:
system drive, I get the hour glass and then nothing
happens. I suspect that they have a hardcoded "c:"
somewhere in the setup utility... Just a guess.
Thanks for the comments. It sounds to me like the easiest
way, it to start from scratch and reinstall the o/s
time, given everything is running fine.
very carefully.
a Windows XP utility. The Operating System prevents this
as it is a process which effectively renders the system
useless - all the file locations / associations etc in
registry will refer to 'F' as the drive letter and
reassignment of F to C will not get registry to make
automatically this change. Thus even if you could change
the drive letter your system would fail to load.
application that will not load.... I double click the
setup utility, which used to install it when I had a c:
system drive, I get the hour glass and then nothing
happens. I suspect that they have a hardcoded "c:"
somewhere in the setup utility... Just a guess.
Thanks for the comments. It sounds to me like the easiest
way, it to start from scratch and reinstall the o/s
where you want to be: do you really need to waste the-----Original Message-----
If Windows works fine and all the applications are running, then leave it alone.
Third party utilities and lots of time will get you to
time, given everything is running fine.
and read how to create, merge, move and image partitions:If not go ahead and buy Partition Magic and Drive Image
very carefully.
case] to another drive letter [C as you would want] usingYou cannot reassign the System Drive [now F in your
a Windows XP utility. The Operating System prevents this
as it is a process which effectively renders the system
useless - all the file locations / associations etc in
registry will refer to 'F' as the drive letter and
reassignment of F to C will not get registry to make
automatically this change. Thus even if you could change
the drive letter your system would fail to load.
G
Guest
You lost me... What is "Dave Patrick's hints" and where
is it? Thanks.
is it? Thanks.
J
Jetro
Dave has a standard reply and posts it twice per day. Search in
win2000.setup NG. Briefly you have to delete F: partition during setup,
interrupt setup, and start over.
win2000.setup NG. Briefly you have to delete F: partition during setup,
interrupt setup, and start over.