Renaming boot drive

[Guest]

To make a long story short, I had to reformat my hard drive this past weekend
and reinstall a clean copy of Windows XP Pro. Fortunately, I didn't lose any
files as I backup frequently.

However, after Windows XP was installed, I found that my drive was now
designated as "H" drive instead of the good old fashioned "C:" drive. That
has caused some problems moving files between home and work as well as
working with certain applications.

I went into the Computer Management Console to try and change the drive
letter of my H: drive back to C: drive just to get a message that I can't
change the drive letter of the system volume. Is there some easy way to get
around this and make the change. I guess I could install Windows XP on an
external USB drive and try to boot from there and then change my H: drive but
this seems like a cumbersome approach to use.

I am also not sure that this would solve the problem since all the registry
entries on my H: drive would still refer to H: drive even through I renamed
the hard drive back to "C: drive".

Am I basically stuck with backing up my drive, reformatting and reinstalling
Windows making sure the partion is set as "C: drive" and then reinstalling
all the software or can I somehow less painfully make the switch from H:
drive to C: drive?

Thanks.

Jerry

 

[DL]

Save yourself more grief,
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html

 

[Nepatsfan]

(e-mail address removed),

To make a long story short, I had to reformat my hard drive
this past weekend and reinstall a clean copy of Windows XP
Pro. Fortunately, I didn't lose any files as I backup
frequently.

However, after Windows XP was installed, I found that my
drive was now designated as "H" drive instead of the good
old fashioned "C:" drive. That has caused some problems
moving files between home and work as well as working with
certain applications.

I went into the Computer Management Console to try and
change the drive letter of my H: drive back to C: drive
just to get a message that I can't change the drive letter
of the system volume. Is there some easy way to get around
this and make the change. I guess I could install Windows XP
on an external USB drive and try to boot from there and then
change my H: drive but this seems like a cumbersome approach
to use.

I am also not sure that this would solve the problem since
all the registry entries on my H: drive would still refer to
H: drive even through I renamed the hard drive back to "C:
drive".

Am I basically stuck with backing up my drive, reformatting
and reinstalling Windows making sure the partion is set as
"C: drive" and then reinstalling all the software or can I
somehow less painfully make the switch from H: drive to C:
drive?

Thanks.

Jerry

Reinstall XP and this time disconnect everything except the
mouse, keyboard and monitor. What you experienced is usually
the result of having an external hard drive, zip drive or
printer attached during the installation. If you have an
internal card reader, you might want to disconnect its power
cable.

Good luck

Nepatsfan