What happened to my drive letter signing?

[mrtee]

This is the article; Change the System/Boot Drive Letter in Windows http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q223188& I have not tried it, my recommendation would be to disconnect the unneeded drives, then reinstall XP with only the 80GB in place.

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Just my 2¢ worth,
Jeff
__________in response to__________
| After 7 years of surfing the internet I finally got a worm. I can't
| remember which one. It doesn't matter anyway.
|
| I formatted the 'C' drive using autoclave which is a program that formats
| everything including the boot sector.
|
| I reinstalled Windows XP Pro. I noticed that my main hard drive, (a 80 Gb
| Western Digital that is set at Primary Master) where my operating system is
| stored was signed as the 'F' drive and my storage drive (a 30 Gb IBM that is
| set at Primary Slave) became the 'C' drive.
|
| I talked to another computer geek friend of mine and he showed me how to
| change the drive letter for my hard disks by going to the control panel and
| opening Computer Management and then choose Disk Management on the tree on
| the left. First I changed my storage drive from 'C' to 'H' then I restarted
| the PC.
|
| Here's where it gets interesting...
|
| When I opened the WINDOWS Explorer to check if the resigning stayed, there
| are
| absolutely no icons in the tree on the left of the explorer. No folder
| icons, no CD/DVD
| drive icons or hard drive icons. Everything else is completely normal.
| Weird huh?
| This I can live with.
|
| Now here's the real problem. Some of you may already know that if one tries
| to use the
| Computer Management tool to resign the drive letter of the system volume or
| boot volume
| Windows XP (Pro) will not let you do it.
|
| Q1) Does anybody know why the windows install made my primary master the 'F'
| drive
| instead of the 'C' drive?
|
| Q2) Is there a way to fix it back so that it is the 'C' drive again?
|
| Thanks,
|
| PR
|
|
|
|
|
|
|

 

[Paul Rhyan]

After 7 years of surfing the internet I finally got a worm. I can't
remember which one. It doesn't matter anyway.

I formatted the 'C' drive using autoclave which is a program that formats
everything including the boot sector.

I reinstalled Windows XP Pro. I noticed that my main hard drive, (a 80 Gb
Western Digital that is set at Primary Master) where my operating system is
stored was signed as the 'F' drive and my storage drive (a 30 Gb IBM that is
set at Primary Slave) became the 'C' drive.

I talked to another computer geek friend of mine and he showed me how to
change the drive letter for my hard disks by going to the control panel and
opening Computer Management and then choose Disk Management on the tree on
the left. First I changed my storage drive from 'C' to 'H' then I restarted
the PC.

Here's where it gets interesting...

When I opened the WINDOWS Explorer to check if the resigning stayed, there
are
absolutely no icons in the tree on the left of the explorer. No folder
icons, no CD/DVD
drive icons or hard drive icons. Everything else is completely normal.
Weird huh?
This I can live with.

Now here's the real problem. Some of you may already know that if one tries
to use the
Computer Management tool to resign the drive letter of the system volume or
boot volume
Windows XP (Pro) will not let you do it.

Q1) Does anybody know why the windows install made my primary master the 'F'
drive
instead of the 'C' drive?

Q2) Is there a way to fix it back so that it is the 'C' drive again?

Thanks,

PR

 

[mikey]

pay particular attention to clicking the SET button.
- Change Disk Drive Letters

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 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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After 7 years of surfing the internet I finally got a worm. I can't
remember which one. It doesn't matter anyway.

I formatted the 'C' drive using autoclave which is a program that formats
everything including the boot sector.

I reinstalled Windows XP Pro. I noticed that my main hard drive, (a 80 Gb
Western Digital that is set at Primary Master) where my operating system is
stored was signed as the 'F' drive and my storage drive (a 30 Gb IBM that is
set at Primary Slave) became the 'C' drive.

I talked to another computer geek friend of mine and he showed me how to
change the drive letter for my hard disks by going to the control panel and
opening Computer Management and then choose Disk Management on the tree on
the left. First I changed my storage drive from 'C' to 'H' then I restarted
the PC.

Here's where it gets interesting...

When I opened the WINDOWS Explorer to check if the resigning stayed, there
are
absolutely no icons in the tree on the left of the explorer. No folder
icons, no CD/DVD
drive icons or hard drive icons. Everything else is completely normal.
Weird huh?
This I can live with.

Now here's the real problem. Some of you may already know that if one tries
to use the
Computer Management tool to resign the drive letter of the system volume or
boot volume
Windows XP (Pro) will not let you do it.

Q1) Does anybody know why the windows install made my primary master the 'F'
drive
instead of the 'C' drive?

Q2) Is there a way to fix it back so that it is the 'C' drive again?

Thanks,

PR