Change Drive Letter Of Windows Drive

[NTICompassInc]

When I installed Windows XP, it formatted my hard drive before install. I have two hard drives, so when it formatted the drive it was going to install on, it but it after my already formatted hard drive. So, my second drive is drive D:, my Windows drive is drive F:. and my 2 CD-rom drives are E: and G:.

How can I change the drive letter of the drive that Windows is installed on without messing up Windows and not being able to boot?

 

[linney]

A clean install is one option. Everything is now setup to use F: in XP's registry, changing drive letters without changing thousands of settings would break too much including your heart.

XP will gladly live and function from F: drive, you may even have some benefit leaving it there as many malware programs are coded to look for Windows on a C: drive but not any other drives.

XP System Partition is NOT drive C:
thread779-641371

223188 - How To Restore the System/Boot Drive Letter in Windows

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=223188&FR=1

How can I change the System partition drive letter in Windows XP?

http://www.petri.co.il/change_system_drive_letter_in_windows_xp.htm

Some third party tools may do what you are asking, but there are risks involved, so make sure you have plenty of backups.

Changing Boot Drive Letter.

http://groups.google.com/group/alt....links+to+new+drive+xp&rnum=5#4228c936189f77ee

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

I have never used the following, so cannot comment on how well it functions or what happens after it is used.

Start > Settings > Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management > Disk Management select the drive Action > All Tasks > Change Drive Letter and Paths

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[NortonES2]

Start > Settings > Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management > Disk Management select the drive Action > All Tasks > Change Drive Letter and Paths

Would only recommend doing this on a drive other than the one where Windows is installed. As mentioned previously if you do this on your F:\ drive you are heading for major problems!!!!!!

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If it doesn't leak oil it must be empty!!

 

[Freestone]

Disk Management won't allow you to change the drive letter of the system drive so this is one case where Microsoft won't allow you to shoot yourself in the foot.