Changing The Letter Of Boot Drive Or Boot Partition

Hi. My current OS (XP) boots on C partition. I want to rename this partition
as W (W from Windows) (obviously, I want my XP still boots on this new W
partition). What are the steps? thanks.

Tino wrote:

Hi. My current OS (XP) boots on C partition. I want to rename this
partition as W (W from Windows) (obviously, I want my XP still boots
on this new W partition). What are the steps? thanks.


There are no steps. You can't do this. You can rename any partition except
the one Windows is on.

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Tino wrote:
Hi. My current OS (XP) boots on C partition. I want to rename this partition
as W (W from Windows) (obviously, I want my XP still boots on this new W
partition). What are the steps? thanks.

This *might* work, but no guarantees:

1) Delete the existing partition.

2) Use a 3rd Party boot manager to create a new partition, format it,
and assign it the desired drive letter.

3) Reinstall WinXP and applications.


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"Bruce Chambers" wrote:

Tino wrote:
Hi. My current OS (XP) boots on C partition. I want to rename this partition
as W (W from Windows) (obviously, I want my XP still boots on this new W
partition). What are the steps? thanks.

This *might* work, but no guarantees:


I meant an alternative to that, Bruce.

1) Delete the existing partition.

2) Use a 3rd Party boot manager to create a new partition, format it,
and assign it the desired drive letter.

3) Reinstall WinXP and applications.


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"Tino" wrote in message
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| Hi. My current OS (XP) boots on C partition. I want to rename this
partition
| as W (W from Windows) (obviously, I want my XP still boots on this new W
| partition). What are the steps? thanks.

I meant an alternative to that, Bruce.

There is no alternative, you can't change the drive letters assigned to the
system or boot volumes once the OS is installed.

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Anyway somebody gave me a good reason for not to change the boot letter, even
if there was an adecuate method:

Many programs do not ask the operating system for that letter; they just
suppose it is C, without further verification.

So, if I change C for W, for instance, then it'll be probable that many
programs suck.

Tino wrote:

Anyway somebody gave me a good reason for not to change the boot
letter, even if there was an adecuate method:

Many programs do not ask the operating system for that letter; they
just suppose it is C, without further verification.

So, if I change C for W, for instance, then it'll be probable that
many programs suck.



Once again, I have no C: hard drive here, and I have *never* run into that
problem. If there are any programs that don't give you a choice when
installing, they are extremely rre.

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