how to change drive letter?

[cuti7399]

Hi,
I just finished a build and I had 2 raptors raid but windows asigned it as drive I. How do I change it to drive C. Thanks

 

[Atheus]

Did you install on that drive? If so I think it's impossible - I remember trying one time but giving up and reinstalling.

How you get it to come up as C when you reinstall depends on your setup.

 

[Jeeebus]

right click my computer --> manage --> disk management --> right click drive letter --> change drive letter and paths

 

[mugs]

Pretty sure you can't change the drive letter of the boot disk.

 

[Homerboy]

Originally posted by: mugs
Pretty sure you can't change the drive letter of the boot disk.

DING!

 

[cuti7399]

really? it would stink to have to reinstall

 

[Nothinman]

really? it would stink to have to reinstall

There are too many hard-coded drive letters in the registry to get them all on the first try so if you change the letter your current install will likely not boot.

But really, why do you care what letter the drive is?

 

[xgsound]

Originally posted by: cuti7399
really? it would stink to have to reinstall

That is likely what would happen if you succeed in changing the boot drive letter. I seem to recall (sorry ... I'm old) hearing several stories about people changing drive letters or adding/removing drives on working multidrive systems only to have them become unbootable. When the original install was with one drive, there seems to be less problems. I also have no idea if any of your data from a ruined raid system would be recoverable.


Jim

 

[cuti7399]

But really, why do you care what letter the drive is?

well, because i want to run some remote installation and as default it will look for C drive

I guess I will have to reinstall windows

 

[mezrah]

Originally posted by: cuti7399

But really, why do you care what letter the drive is?

well, because i want to run some remote installation and as default it will look for C drive

I guess I will have to reinstall windows

Did you have a card reader plugged in during install. I've heard of people getting their boot drive set at H: or I: or something that way.

Although, when I just installed Vista I had it plugged in and still my boot drive ended up as C:

 

[Aikouka]

Vista always assigns your boot drive to C. HOWEVER Vista's install will always install the MBR to Disk 0 Partition 0 regardless of what drive this is. If this occurs, you can only boot Vista with the DVD in the drive.

When installing Windows XP, ensure you have no other disk mediums installed that will take the default from the main boot drive.

 

[Smilin]

Originally posted by: cuti7399

But really, why do you care what letter the drive is?

well, because i want to run some remote installation and as default it will look for C drive

I guess I will have to reinstall windows

*sigh*. The drive letter the OS is installed on isnt' supposed to matter and if proper practices were followed it wouldn't. There are system variables that are mean to be used just for this sort of thing:
%SystemDrive%
%SystemRoot%
%Userprofile%
%temp%
etc..

It is possible to change the drive letter by modifying the mounteddevices key but this merely changes the drive letter. If things were installed that made references to this drive letter in the registry this won't update them and crap will break. mounteddevices is usefull for changing the driveletter back to what it should be if an inadvertent change occurs.

If you are stuck needing to change the boot drive letter after the fact then a reinstall now would be the way to go.

 

[Pacemaker]

They are western digital drives so if you want an exact copy of your old boot drive then use the "data lifeguard tool" and it will automatically re-assign the drive letter when done (at least it did when I used it). I don't remember the exact settings, but I think it was something like "replace my current boot drive" or something to that effect.

 

[cuti7399]

now i can even boot into windows, just a blank screen, this is getting frustrating, tried new bios, no help
I can't even boot to new installation screen when I decided to reinstall windows. It got stuck to a blank screen after say "setup is determine configuration....."
When i set the sata configuration is the bios to IDE then I get the installation done, but then I would have no raid!!!!!