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Messed up drive letters
I have upgraded my MB, cpu, and ram.
My harddrive is 40gb divided into 3 partitions:10gb, 20gb, 10gb. I formatted the first partition (windows) with ntfs and installed win xp pro now I find that windows is installed on G can I just change G to C or will this cause problems? any idea's Brian |
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"Brian" wrote in message ... I have upgraded my MB, cpu, and ram. My harddrive is 40gb divided into 3 partitions:10gb, 20gb, 10gb. I formatted the first partition (windows) with ntfs and installed win xp pro now I find that windows is installed on G can I just change G to C or will this cause problems? any idea's Brian I did something similar and was also surprised that XP did not automatically have to default to C: unfortunately i don;t think there would be any way to change the drive letter at this point... even if you could reassign the drive letter to C: and the reference in boot.ini there would be hundreds (or more likely thousands) of registry entries that would have to be changed. there might be some utility that could make those changes...but it looks like it would be a mess to me |
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"philo" wrote in message ... "Brian" wrote in message ... I have upgraded my MB, cpu, and ram. My harddrive is 40gb divided into 3 partitions:10gb, 20gb, 10gb. I formatted the first partition (windows) with ntfs and installed win xp pro now I find that windows is installed on G can I just change G to C or will this cause problems? any idea's Brian I did something similar and was also surprised that XP did not automatically have to default to C: unfortunately i don;t think there would be any way to change the drive letter at this point... even if you could reassign the drive letter to C: and the reference in boot.ini there would be hundreds (or more likely thousands) of registry entries that would have to be changed. there might be some utility that could make those changes...but it looks like it would be a mess to me In W2k under Control Panel there is administrative Tools, in there under Computer management there is Disk Management that allows you to edit (change) Drive letters. There may be something similar in XP. the_gnome |
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In W2k under Control Panel there is administrative Tools, in there under Computer management there is Disk Management that allows you to edit (change) Drive letters. There may be something similar in XP. I use both XP and Win2k they both have the same drive management... but I don't think you can change the letter of the drive your system actually boots to.(I'm pretty sure I tried to) Even if you could change the drive letter...there is still the problem with all registry entries which would still refer to the original drive |
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Am I mistaken (only 1 cup o joe this morn) windows loads to the first 'active' partition.
"Brian" wrote in message ... I have upgraded my MB, cpu, and ram. My harddrive is 40gb divided into 3 partitions:10gb, 20gb, 10gb. I formatted the first partition (windows) with ntfs and installed win xp pro now I find that windows is installed on G can I just change G to C or will this cause problems? any idea's Brian |
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Brian, do you by any chance have a Zip drive installed in your system??
first off, you can change the drive letters for any drive EXCEPT the system drive. Now, there is a know problem with system with a Iomega Zip drive. Sometimes during installation, Windows mistakenly thinks the Zip drive is the first hard drive, and installes itself on it, making it drive C:. IF this is what may have happened, the only remedy is to temp disconnect the Zip drive, and do a fresh install of Windows. Be sure to check which partition/disk Windows is installing to. Aftyer Windows is installed on your HD, THEN reconnect the Zip drive and Windows will assign it a letter. "JAD" wrote in message .net... Am I mistaken (only 1 cup o joe this morn) windows loads to the first 'active' partition. "Brian" wrote in message ... I have upgraded my MB, cpu, and ram. My harddrive is 40gb divided into 3 partitions:10gb, 20gb, 10gb. I formatted the first partition (windows) with ntfs and installed win xp pro now I find that windows is installed on G can I just change G to C or will this cause problems? any idea's Brian |
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Thanks for your replies, it looks like I will have to reinstall xp
"Brian" wrote in message ... I have upgraded my MB, cpu, and ram. My harddrive is 40gb divided into 3 partitions:10gb, 20gb, 10gb. I formatted the first partition (windows) with ntfs and installed win xp pro now I find that windows is installed on G can I just change G to C or will this cause problems? any idea's Brian |
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"philo" wrote in message ... In W2k under Control Panel there is administrative Tools, in there under Computer management there is Disk Management that allows you to edit (change) Drive letters. There may be something similar in XP. I use both XP and Win2k they both have the same drive management... but I don't think you can change the letter of the drive your system actually boots to.(I'm pretty sure I tried to) Even if you could change the drive letter...there is still the problem with all registry entries which would still refer to the original drive on W2k you can EDIT the drive letter to anything you want providing it doesn't already exist and the registry resets itself and all programs work including shortcuts. At least it did when my boot drive showed up as D: and I edited it to C: the_gnome |
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on W2k you can EDIT the drive letter to anything you want providing it doesn't already exist and the registry resets itself and all programs work including shortcuts. At least it did when my boot drive showed up as D: and I edited it to C: the_gnome I just took a look...and... I think you've got something there...XP has the same ability within disk management... it said : edit drive letter and paths so I'd think that would work. |
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"philo" wrote in message ... on W2k you can EDIT the drive letter to anything you want providing it doesn't already exist and the registry resets itself and all programs work including shortcuts. At least it did when my boot drive showed up as D: and I edited it to C: the_gnome I just took a look...and... I think you've got something there...XP has the same ability within disk management... it said : edit drive letter and paths so I'd think that would work. XP's Disk Management will not allow you to change the drive letter assigned to the system or boot partition :-) |
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