changing drive letters of a system volume

[i3rYs0n]

Windows was runnin a bit slow and it has been a while so i desided to go in for a format. I HAD my 160 gig drive partitioned into (c🙂 40 gigs and and (d🙂 120 gigs. When i went in to format the drive i deleted drive c and (drive d stayed as drive d) and then setup windows on the new partition

On startup i find that my backup drive (d) has been set as (c), and my windows drive as (d). How do i fix this without screwing up the harddrive. Is there a way to choose the drive letter duriing windows setup?

I've tried to change the letters in computer management, but it doens't allow, and when i change them using regedit it stops booting.


thx,
bryson

 

[eydolic]

Windows normally is pretty good about keeping everything as "%system root%" instead of "C:" or "D:." When you change the drives in regedit, btw, you're going to have to manually edit your changes into the boot.ini file.

IE: multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional"
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional"

 

[imported_rhfactor]

I think you have your 120GB partition as the active primary. If you want the 40GB as the C drive, that should be the active.

 

[RacerChuck]

If your running W2K Pro,

Go to Control Panel / Administrative Tools / Computer Management / Disk Management

From there you can re-asign disk drive letters

 

[FReEX]

to change a drive letter is not advised by microsoft unless the drive letter has ch\aned while in same install. but if you want to do it then yes you may need to adjust your boot ini with this as well.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q223188/
this will get you going.

I just got this computer here up and was looking for it and this is all that i found usefull. im not going to do it though, i really dont care that much, and my client will deal with it simply because it wont hurt anything... but yes do that as it says, change the boot ini and change every refrence in the registry from current (install vol)\blah blah to new drive letter. this will ensure that you maintain a properly running os. although i can not gurantee that you will get everything or that windows qill forgive you 😛

ok anyway good luck. Oah btw i dont mean to get insulting but NO you can not change the boot drive letter in drive management. Anyone who has been using windows for some time knows you cant do this to the boot volume. besides if you would check you would find this out, and not make your self the fool. Research myfriends research, it is the key to knowledge. In the future make sure that you verify your info before spreading false hope. Besides it will help make you a better tech and not spread false info around. There is nothingworse then ignorance then blind ignorance.