Installed WinXP on wrong drive letter - Can I change it after install?

[cw42]

Installed WinXP on wrong drive letter - Can I change it after the install?

 

[archcommus]

Don't believe so, the folder and all that is all fixed in place already.

 

[nageov3t]

yes with third party software, but it's generally not worth it since it can cause all kinds of screwy problems.

 

[sandorski]

Start over. Been there, done that, don't waste your time trying. 😉

 

[igowerf]

I'm not sure if you can do this with the drive that XP is installed on, but you can easily swap drive letters for other drives (CD-ROM, external hard drives, media readers, etc) through the Computer Management panel under Admin Tools.

 

[Busithoth]

I've done this. Even with partition magic, I somehow screwed fixing it, and just started over.

 

[Mutilator]

Like they've said, there's really no easy way to switch the system drive letter. I have this problem too every time I reinstall XP since I have a SCSI drive and an IDE drive... always wants to make the IDE drive C: so I just unplug it until the install is done, then reconnect it.

 

[cw42]

Well, i decided to just reinstall in order to prevent any other troubles down the road.

The problem I originally had was that my HD names/letters were mixed up when I had my WinXP install cd loaded. For example it's suppose to look like this:

C: Alpha (system drive)
D: Data1
E: Data2
M: Music

(C,D are on my 400GB hd... E,M are on my 300GB hd).

My WinXP install disc made it look like:
C: Music
D: Data2
E: Data1
M: Alpha

Silly winxp... :/

 

[Lonyo]

You can change the letters on the other drives, just not on the drive XP is installed on.
Not that it matters since you can just (as you seem to have done) name the drives, and fairly much ignore the letter.

 

[Zaitsevs]

too many links attached to that folder,

if you change it to C:

it will fudge a lot of stuff up