Is it possile to change Windows 2000's boot drive letter?

[AluminumStudios]

To make a long story short I was dual booting Win98 and XP, then booted off a Win2K CD, blew away the XP partition and installed 2K. 2K decided to make it's partitoin that \winnt resides on E:

Is it possible for me to change this to D: from computer management > disk management without screwing up Windows 2000? I mean, idealy apps should use the %system root environment variable when trying to find stuff on the boot partition. I know I will have a handful of apps that use hard coded paths break. I can fix that as long as I know Windows isn't going to up and break.

 

[Saltin]

No, it isnt a good idea

 

[stevewm]

Ironically there are quite a few registry entires made during OS installation that are coded to your current drive letter. The path to the page file being one of them. (I've tried before.....)


This is why Disk Managment will not allow you change drive letters of the boot volume.

Anyways I would just leave it at E:\ The drive letter is more cosmetic than anything nowadays.

 

[AndyHui]

It is possible, but does have problems.

Please read the FAQ: How do I change drive letters?

 

[NogginBoink]

The path to the pagefile is the least of your concerns. That's something that you CAN edit with relative safety.

I've never found a good solution to this issue. I don't believe there really is one.

I do know that when you install Citrix on an NT4 terminal server, it changes the drive letter of the OS. I've always wondered how they do that, but never been able to find out. It's the only case I know of where this appears to work. (They may do it by adding a device driver, which is probably the safest way to do it.)