Oh dear! Is F: your boot drive? Then you can't change it! I got myself into
this predicament when I was installing XP as part of a dual boot with Win98.
The only way I could remedy it was to reload XP after I disconnected the
Win98 drive.
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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How can I change the local directory from F: to C:? Using
disk management won't let me.
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