Changing drive letters

[Beev]

I reformatted over the weekend, and my main drive got set to be drive E Is there any way to change it? The built in drive management says I can't change the letter on a boot drive, but I thought I remembered being able to change it on a previous format (years ago).

 

[JackMDS]

Once installed you can Not change the Drive letter on the Boot Drive since all the software installations, and Registry entries point to the current drive letter.

You have to reinstall and make sure that your Boot drive is the only drive active when you do so.

 

[Slugbait]

Well, you can, but it's a huge pain, takes a lot of time, and has no guarantee of working.

I'm guessing you have an internal card reader, or mass storage device (such as a Zip drive) connected to the mobo. You probably saw it during install. Simply disconnect everything but the boot drive and do another OS install. You'll spend a lot less time doing this than trying to "fix" the disk assignment.

 

[JackMDS]

Yeah you can, just like you can walking by foot from NYC to LA.

It would take few years, and if you are young you might make it alive. 😉

 

[Mide]

Yeah if it's your main boot drive then you're hosed...startover with only that HDD attached. 1 partition...make sure it becomes C.

 

[DaTT]

This happened to me once, after I finished pulling all my hair out...I hit the drive with a hammer and soaked it with urine. I had to go buy a new drive and from there I was able to change it C:




sorry...I'll head back to OT now

 

[brblx]

do you have another disk that is C?

usually if nothing else is taking the letter the windows install is automatically C.

 

[postmortemIA]

it becomes E if partition didn't exist when you started installation and you had other partitions

since you didn't install too much software; it is fresh installation, it would make most sense to start over now.