Reassigning drive letters

[Guest]

A few weeks ago my computer died and I had a friend rebuild it, new
motherboard, processor, RAM and hard drive. However, my harddrive is
labelled I: and not C:. From searching this forum I see that you can reassign
drive letters except for the system volume unless you reinstall XP, which I
really don't want to do. My question is this. Is there really any problem if
I leave the boot drive as I:? When installing, programs automatically install
to the I: drive.
Thanks, Danney

 

[Guest]

See if this will work for you.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;307844&sd=tech

 

[DL]

That wont work on the o/s partition, and would'nt be reccommended if it did,
as all the registry entries will point to the wrong drive

 

[DL]

Theres no real problem, just minor confussion

 

[mikeyhsd]

you might find some program that still is poorly written and requires a "C" drive to install to.
until then, enjoy.



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A few weeks ago my computer died and I had a friend rebuild it, new
motherboard, processor, RAM and hard drive. However, my harddrive is
labelled I: and not C:. From searching this forum I see that you can reassign
drive letters except for the system volume unless you reinstall XP, which I
really don't want to do. My question is this. Is there really any problem if
I leave the boot drive as I:? When installing, programs automatically install
to the I: drive.
Thanks, Danney

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

A few weeks ago my computer died and I had a friend rebuild it, new
motherboard, processor, RAM and hard drive. However, my harddrive is
labelled I: and not C:. From searching this forum I see that you can reassign
drive letters except for the system volume unless you reinstall XP, which I
really don't want to do. My question is this. Is there really any problem if
I leave the boot drive as I:?

No.