how do i change the drive letter in windows?

[MrDudeMan]

i installed windows and for some odd reason it made the hard drive letter E instead of C. the removeable disk (which doesnt even exist on this computer) is drive C. i cant install anything because it is trying to find it on drive C and it is looking at the revomeable disk. Drive E is having a hard time recognizing anything because i cant even get it to find it in the device manager. i dont know what happened or how to fix it, but i need it changed because i dont want to install the operating system again. thanks for anything you can guys help me with, and ill post back later if i figure this out by myself.

if anyone has any ideas, please let me know. you can either e-mail me or let me know in this post, thanks again.

 

[BlueWeasel]

Which version of Windows? I have never seen a removable disk as the C:\ drive.

I assume you are talking about the master HD on the primary channel, right?

 

[crazychicken]

hmmm i know with cdroms you can choose the drive letter.... did you partition the drive when you installed XP? There has to be another partition that the MBR sees before the XP drive. Use partition magic 7 to switch the location of the 2 partitions and you should be good to go. (make sure to backup, this could get messy)

good luck bump

david

 

[FlyingPenguin]

I assume this is XP or Win2K. Common problem with either.

You really can't change the drive letter of the boot drive now. If you do, Windows will probably not work properly. It should boot, but it won't find your apps.

If this just happened and the boot drive used to be C, then you can change it back from the Disk Manager. HOWEVER you'd be better off restoring to an earlier restore point if this is an XP system.

 

[BlueWeasel]

Welcome Flying Penguin!

I thought you just hung out on "that other board".... 🙂

 

[music]

From the FAQs - if this is what you need.
Good Luck.

 

[crazychicken]

or that.. haha

xp is sweet 😉