Changing system drive letter

[Titan12022]

on my copmuter, when I installed Windows it called the drive which is normaly C:\ drive F:\, and now that it is the system drive with windows installed on it, It says I cannot change it.
Is there any way to change it without installing, and why did it do this.?

 

[bcastner]

Do you have a Zip drive?

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=304776

http://support.microsoft.com/defaul...rt/kb/articles/Q223/1/88.ASP&NoWebContent=1#2

 

[Titan12022]

No zip drive... yet... next step... willl try second web site instructions...

 

[bcastner]

Be careful, be very, very careful. This is an excellent way to create a non-bootable system.

 

[wolluf]

Titan12022 - if you really want XP on C:, you'd be better off doing another clean install - after you find out what caused the use of F: (if you read the MS article, it recommends only using it to recover back to lost system drive - because otherwise the registry will be pointing in the wrong places for any number of references).

(XP will run perfectly well on F

When you did the install, was the hard drive already partitioned? Or were there 2 hard drives in machine?

If you have just one drive, and completely remove all partitions & create a new one during the install process, it should install to C:.

 

[Titan12022]

So... how would I do it with a linux, linux swap, and windows swap drive partitions?

 

[Titan12022]

changing in windows without bothering Linux that is...

 

[bcastner]

Well with all of these Linux partitions you now know why XP used drive letter F.

Personally, I would leave it alone. As Wolluf suggested above, anything else would involve moving or re-arranging the enumeration of existing partitions and a reinstall of XP.

See:

http://www.boot-us.com/

for possible help. And for an alternative look that could well give you drive C for the XP install, Rannick:

http://www.trombettworks.com/multi-boot.htm

 

[Titan12022]

I'll probably just end up leaving it alone... even if it drives me insane

 

[bcastner]

Changing it would make you insaner.

Best,
Bill Castner