Hard Disk Letter

[Sam Clark]

When I installed XP it assigned a drive letter of G: to
my hard drive. I did not pay attention to this until
after I had installed several other programs. Is there
any way to change this to C: without reinstalling all the
other programs.

[Joseph Conway \(MSFT\)]

Whats currently using the C drive?


"Sam Clark" > wrote in message
...
> When I installed XP it assigned a drive letter of G: to
> my hard drive. I did not pay attention to this until
> after I had installed several other programs. Is there
> any way to change this to C: without reinstalling all the
> other programs.

[Eric Booth]

"Sam Clark" > wrote in message
...
> When I installed XP it assigned a drive letter of G: to
> my hard drive. I did not pay attention to this until
> after I had installed several other programs. Is there
> any way to change this to C: without reinstalling all the
> other programs.

Go to Computer Management and R click a partition or drive and then click
Change drive letter and Paths. Click thedrive letter you want and click
Change
Eric Booth

[Sam Clark]

Nothing is currently on C. I think what happened is I
had a hard drive crash and was hoping to recover it so
the old hard drive was still connected at that time. The
current G: drive is my boot drive and as I mentioned I
would like to do this without having to reinstall other
programs. It is not a huge number but it has already
been a pain loosing an 80 GB hard drive.

Thanks,

Sam
>-----Original Message-----
>Whats currently using the C drive?
>
>
>"Sam Clark" > wrote in message
...
>> When I installed XP it assigned a drive letter of G: to
>> my hard drive. I did not pay attention to this until
>> after I had installed several other programs. Is there
>> any way to change this to C: without reinstalling all
the
>> other programs.
>
>
>.
>

[Sam Clark]

Sounds so simple. I was aware you could do this but I
could find no discussion about how it affected the system
boot or other programs already installed to G:

Thanks,

Sam
>-----Original Message-----
>
>"Sam Clark" > wrote in message
...
>> When I installed XP it assigned a drive letter of G: to
>> my hard drive. I did not pay attention to this until
>> after I had installed several other programs. Is there
>> any way to change this to C: without reinstalling all
the
>> other programs.
>
>Go to Computer Management and R click a partition or
drive and then click
>Change drive letter and Paths. Click thedrive letter you
want and click
>Change
>Eric Booth
>
>
>.
>

[Nicholas]

One cannot change the drive letter Windows XP is installed on.
The only way to correct the situation is to delete all your partitions,
create a new partition, format the new partition and reinstall
Windows XP.

Drive Letters Change Unexpectedly When You Install Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=3Dkb;en-us;326683


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Nicholas

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"Sam Clark" > wrote in message:
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| Sounds so simple. I was aware you could do this but I=20
| could find no discussion about how it affected the system=20
| boot or other programs already installed to G:
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| Thanks,
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| Sam
| >-----Original Message-----
| >
| >"Sam Clark" > wrote in message
| ...
| >> When I installed XP it assigned a drive letter of G: to
| >> my hard drive. I did not pay attention to this until
| >> after I had installed several other programs. Is there
| >> any way to change this to C: without reinstalling all=20
| the
| >> other programs.
| >
| >Go to Computer Management and R click a partition or=20
| drive and then click
| >Change drive letter and Paths. Click thedrive letter you=20
| want and click
| >Change
| >Eric Booth
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| >
| >.
| >

[Joseph Conway \(MSFT\)]

You could most likely rename the drive in diskadmin back to C as long as the
other drive is gone now. I was curious what you had as the current C drive.

"Sam Clark" > wrote in message
...
> Nothing is currently on C. I think what happened is I
> had a hard drive crash and was hoping to recover it so
> the old hard drive was still connected at that time. The
> current G: drive is my boot drive and as I mentioned I
> would like to do this without having to reinstall other
> programs. It is not a huge number but it has already
> been a pain loosing an 80 GB hard drive.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Sam
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Whats currently using the C drive?
> >
> >
> >"Sam Clark" > wrote in message
> ...
> >> When I installed XP it assigned a drive letter of G: to
> >> my hard drive. I did not pay attention to this until
> >> after I had installed several other programs. Is there
> >> any way to change this to C: without reinstalling all
> the
> >> other programs.
> >
> >
> >.
> >

[Alex Nichol]

Sam Clark wrote:

>When I installed XP it assigned a drive letter of G: to
>my hard drive. I did not pay attention to this until
>after I had installed several other programs. Is there
>any way to change this to C: without reinstalling all the
>other programs.

Once the drive where the system is installed has taken this letter it is
not practicable to change it, other than by startling over, deleting and
formatting the partition in the course of a new install. And Drive
management will not let you change it. The reason is that the letter
has been embedded in *very* many references in the registry, and a lot
of things would cease to work.

The common reason, if this was not a dual boot setup, is having a Zip
drive connected at the time - these seem to push themselves into
enumeration and the system's partition usually becomes something like F:

Not that it matters - things will work equally well with it lettered G.
You just have to remember that you have to modify any advice that says
C:\windows to G:\Windows

--
Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows - File Systems)
Bournemouth, U.K.

[Alex Nichol]

Joseph Conway (MSFT) wrote:

>You could most likely rename the drive in diskadmin back to C as long as the
>other drive is gone now. I was curious what you had as the current C drive.

You cannot rename the drive on which the system is installed. And
frankly such a suggestion surprises me from someone posting from
Microsoft


--
Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows - File Systems)
Bournemouth, U.K.

[Peter Hutchison]

On Sat, 17 May 2003 05:55:34 -0700, "Sam Clark"
> wrote:

>Sounds so simple. I was aware you could do this but I
>could find no discussion about how it affected the system
>boot or other programs already installed to G:
>

It would not change any the programs already installed. If you changed
the drive letter from G: to C:. Windows will expect all your programs
to be on the G: drive unless you recreate all the shortcuts to C: and
all the registry entries to C: as well. You might as well do clean
install again.

Peter Hutchison
Windows FAQ
http://www.pcguru.plus.com/winfaqs.html