changing drive letter path

AZCompTech

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Click on Start and then Control Panel.

Click on the Performance and Maintenance link.

In the Performance and Maintenance window, click on the Administrative Tools link located under the or pick a Control Panel icon heading near the bottom of the window.

With Administrative Tools now open, double-click on Computer Management.

When Computer Management opens, click on Disk Management on the left.

On the right-hand side of the screen, locate and right-click on the drive that you wish to change the drive letter of and choose Change Drive Letter and Paths....

In the Change Drive Letter and Paths window, click on the Change... button.

The Change Drive Letter or Path dialog box will appear. Choose the drive letter you wish to assign to this partition.

Click OK.

The Confirm window that appears advises you that "Changing the drive letter of a volume might cause programs to no longer run. Are you sure you want to change this drive letter?".

If you're sure you want to make this change, click Yes.

Depending on the speed of your PC, the change should be nearly instant.

The driver letter change in Windows XP is complete!

You can now close any open windows.
 

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Changing system drive leter is harder.

Make a full system backup of the computer and system state.
Log on as an Administrator.
Start Regedt32.exe (or Regedit.exe in Windows XP).
Go to the following registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevices

Click MountedDevices.
On the Security menu, click Permissions.
Check to make sure Administrators have full control. Change this back when you are finished with these steps.
Quit Regedt32.exe, and then start Regedit.exe.
Go to the following registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevices

Find the drive letter you want to change to (new). Look for "\DosDevices\C:".
Right-click \DosDevices\C:, and then click Rename. In Windows 2000 you must use Regedit instead of Regedt32 to rename this registry key.
Rename it to an unused drive letter "\DosDevices\Z:". (This will free up drive letter C: to be used later.)
Find the drive letter you want changed. Look for "\DosDevices\D:".
Right-click \DosDevices\D:, and then click Rename.
Rename it to the appropriate (new) drive letter "\DosDevices\C:".
Click the value for \DosDevices\Z:, click Rename, and then name it back to "\DosDevices\D:".
Quit Regedit, and then start Regedt32 (not required in Windows XP).
Change the permissions back to the previous setting for Administrators (this should probably be Read Only).
Restart the computer.