should i change my drive letters?

[tokamak]

i just started up my new computer for the first time. everything is looking good, but XP screwed up my drive letters. i partitioned my 60gb drive into a 6gb partition (windows) and a 54gb partition (everything else). it made the system partition C, BUT it made the secondary partition E and my cdrw D. i want it the other way around (hard drive D, cdrw E). well i figured that was no problem, i could just change em around in windows. but the FAQ about that said its not a good idea to change drive letters. should I or should I not? keep in mind that i have done absolutely nothing else to this computer so far, havent installed any programs, etc.

 

[MrMilney]

I had just the opposite problem; I wanted my DVD drive to be D:, my CD-RW to be E: and the next partion of my hard drive to be F:. I changed the drive letters before installing any additional software (C: was the only drive that had anything on it) and have had no problems what so ever.

The only annoyance is any time I need to grab files off the installation CD I have to manually specify that the installer should look in D:\i386. I need to fix this little problem in the registry but I've been too lazy to do it yet.

 

[AShadeOfClear]

Its a matter of personal preference I suppose. This is how I like it:

C: Disk1 Win2k
D: Disk1 Data
E: mp3 player
F: Disk2 WinXP
G: DIsk2 Backup
H: CDR
I: CDRW

Does XP have Disk Management? I think it does, its in Administrative Tools in the Control Panel. That is where you'd change your drive letters.

 

[cholley]

wow, you guys are pickey

 

[Yomama21]

Just go into computer management and change the drive letters to your likeing (sp).

The only problems I could see is to make sure you don't change the C:\ to something else.

 

[TheCorm]

Yeah, you should be okay....you cannot change the boot/system drive letter.

Corm