Changing drive Letters

Auxon

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Heyas! Quick question, hopefully will get a short quick answer. Is there an easy way to change the drive letters that I have my OS (XP) installed on? Its currently installed to F: and I would like to switch it with my C: drive. Is there a nice program out there that'll search and replace registry entries for me?

Thanks

Kevin
 

crapito

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WinXP allows you to change drive letters using its Computer Management service: Start->Control Panel->Administrative Tools->Computer Management->Storage->Disk Management or more simply, "%SystemRoot%\system32\compmgmt.msc /s" as a shortcut. I don't know of a drive remapper program for installed programs though...
 

Auxon

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Thats cool, never noticed that before. Though, it will not let me change the system drive lettering around. I really don't want to have to write a program to do this but its looking like that might be easiest... Thanks though,

Kevin
 

widows wont really let you no matter what you do. I had to reformat in order to change from F to C
 

crazydave

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There actually is a way to do it without reinstaling Windows (search support.microsoft.com, they tell you how to do it)--it involves changing a couple of registry keys. They made it that way on purpose so ppl won't mess up their systems changing the system drive letter. However MS doesn't recommend that you do that unless your Windows is jacked up and won't start (ie if the drive letters got changed by reimaging or some other procedure)--you might actually make your working installation unbootable. It's annoying, but your best bet is probably to reinstall.