where did "E" drive come from 1

[jockie]

I recently had a failed hard drive "c". When the replacement hard drive was installed by the manufacturer it ended up as "E".How do I redesignate this as "c" or do I just go along?.

 

[bcastner]

A good discussion of why you should change it back to C, the MS KB articles involved in the change, and a discussion of possible pitfalls:

http://www.experts-exchange.com/Operating_Systems/WinXP/Q_20552040.html

 

[tahoe2]

Log on as administrator, go to administrative tools, disk management, and from there you can change the drive letter designation (I think you can just right click on it and choose 'change drive letter'...).

Hope this helps.

Corie

 

[bcastner]

tahoe2,

It is not that simple. He is booting from E and you need to use the registry or diskpart to change the assignment. Disk Management will not let you change a boot drive.

 

[tahoe2]

Sorry, my mistake. I just tried it on my XP machine and all you can do is mount the boot sector to a NTFS folder on another drive that you've changed to C:, however that works...

Corie

 

[tahoe2]

Oops, hit post and I wasn't done! That works to get the machine to think you're booting to C:, but it's only a shell, not the real thing. I have no idea if it will fool programs or anything.
Like bcastner says, you need a third party partition creator to do it right.

Sorry, and thanks for the heads up! (my brain is stuck in NT mode...)

 

[bcastner]

You can actually work around the issue without third party tools.

The link I gave above gives the details. It is slightly messy, but not horribly difficult.

My question to jockie who started the thread: I would have immediately returned the machine to the vendor and let them sort this out.

Best.

 

[milcman]

Just a thanks to Tahoe2...pointed me in the right direction about a different problem. Removable drive setting up with different drive letter assignments depending on what else is plugged in at the time. It played hell with replication & paths for my split MS Access DB.

You gety a star for the help.

Clint Galliano
Halliburton Energy Services
BAROID PSL
"Done ONCE, Done RIGHT!"

 

[tahoe2]

Thanks for the star, milcman! Glad my ramblings were of help!

Corie