Moving folders from "D" to "C" drive

[nataraj48]

I have a "Windows" folder on the "D" drive which should be on the "C" drive. How do I move it? Copying and pasting takes a long time. Are folders supposed to be on the "D" drive?
Why do DELL computer CPUs not have an "A" drive?

 

[2ffat]

I wouldn't move the Window's folder. If your computer is booting from the D: drive, moving the Windows folder may cause problems. It maybe possible that the D: drive is a backup or mirror drive that Dell put in instead of giving you a CD.

Very few manufactures use A or B drives anymore since those were once reserved for floppy drives and floppies are no longer used. If you want you can use a USB drive as A.



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[vacunita]

I agree. If Windows is installed in the D: drive, then moving the folder will only render Windows unusable. Why do you want to move it? Why do you think its supposed to be somewhere else?

As was said A and B are reserved from floppy drives. Most newer PC's no longer have floppy drives, Hence the drive letters are not used.

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[SirBlack]

As mentioned before, A & B drives were designated for floppy disks. B: drives were the original floppies many, many years back (they were about 5" square & paper thin). Most companies don't supply an A: drive anymore. I paid an extra $20 to Gateway to have 1 installed when I purchased it as I had a lot of Floppy discs that I've since copied over to CD's. If you have an open bay in your tower, it's a rather easy process to install one if you find it necessary.
Cheers, Bob

 

[Sleepsalot]

I would look for the boot.ini file open it with note pad. It will tell you which drive windows is booting from.

Wayne

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[linney]

Windows will happily survive on your D: drive, it doesn't really matter which drive it is installed on. The only safe way to move such a folder is to Format the whole hard drive C:, D: and any other Partitions that are on that drive and clean install Windows. You should also disconnect any external drives during any clean install so that they do not interfere with any drive letter assignments.

Overview of PNP enumeration and hard disk drive letter assignments in Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;825668&FR=1&PA=1&SD=HSCH

XP System Partition is NOT drive C:
thread779-641371

Change "system volume" drive letter
thread779-763819

How To Restore the System/Boot Drive Letter in Windows

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

Even though you may not have a Floppy drive the connections are probably available on your Motherboard and therefore Drive letters are reserved for that use.

 

[warnockm]

I haven't done this, but what if you used partition magic to move the partion that holds D: to be the first partion. Boot w/ the Windows XP CD, run a fixboot, fixmbr and bootcfg /rebuild so the system will boot, then run partition magic's Drive Remapper which searches the registry and renames all D:'s to C:'s.

just a thought, again, i haven't done it.