WinXP Install To F: Not C:

[Paputxi]

I just installed WinXP on a drive that contained a partition containing
Linux. When I installed WinXP (into it's own partition), it identified the
partition as F: not C:. Three questions: 1) Can I reassign the F: to C:
without having to reinstall WinXP and all the applications I have installed
(which indicates everything is on F: not C. 2) If I move the WinXP
partition to another drive, will it still show as F: or C:? 3) How would I
go about changing the drive from F: to C:?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

I just installed WinXP on a drive that contained a partition containing
Linux. When I installed WinXP (into it's [its] own partition), it
identified the
partition as F: not C:. Three questions: 1) Can I reassign the F: to C:
without having to reinstall WinXP and all the applications I have
installed
(which indicates everything is on F: not C. 2) If I move the WinXP
partition to another drive, will it still show as F: or C:? 3) How would
I
go about changing the drive from F: to C:?

Thanks in advance.

Regardless of what you do, you must preserve the drive letter F:.
It is fairly easy to change it, perhaps by moving the installation to
a different disk, but the result would be disastrous. Don't!

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

I just installed WinXP on a drive that contained a partition containing
Linux. When I installed WinXP (into it's own partition), it identified the
partition as F: not C:. Three questions: 1) Can I reassign the F: to C:
without having to reinstall WinXP and all the applications I have installed
(which indicates everything is on F: not C.

No. Leave it alone. Although it's unusual, there's really no
disadvantage to having it on F:. I happen to have Windows installed on
F: myself. It's been that way for years and I have no problems with
it.


2) If I move the WinXP

 

[Patrick Keenan]

I just installed WinXP on a drive that contained a partition containing
Linux. When I installed WinXP (into it's own partition), it identified
the
partition as F: not C:. Three questions: 1) Can I reassign the F: to C:
without having to reinstall WinXP and all the applications I have
installed
(which indicates everything is on F: not C. 2) If I move the WinXP
partition to another drive, will it still show as F: or C:? 3) How would
I
go about changing the drive from F: to C:?

Thanks in advance.

There is no practical way to change this without doing a clean install,
which means in your case also removing the Linux partition.

The downside of leaving it as it is is that you have to remember that the
root is F, not C. It's possible that you might run into an older,
badly-written app that wants to see C: as the root, but those are thankfully
few.

HTH
-pk