I just had to reformat my pc (way too much incopatible beta s/w).

Now Windows (xp home) is as intended on my raptor. The weird thing is that it is assigened the drive letter F: in windows. And my backup/progems2 hd's are CDF: respectively. When i tried to change the letters in <right-click my pc to select "manage"> it does not allow me to change the drive letters (big surprise). Is there an easy way to change my win drive to C:? Will it cause problem to just leave it on F:? or do i have to reinstall win (i dont feel like calling microsoft to expain to them why my single liscense of xp is registered 20 times)?

thanks

there isnt much you can do from my understanding. you theoretically could first disconnect all your other harddrives. THen enter system registry and change all F: to C: and see if the comptuer would boot. You would have to change systemroot to C: and all file/shortcut etc to C but that sounds like a lot of work (and a lot of potential to screw up somewhere.) Good Luck if u plan on going through with this. Remember, ALL F: has to be changed to C: in both registry and shortcuts etc.

Partition Magic?

ah well, seems to much of a hassle. I'll just try leaving it and reinstall when a problem arises.

My windows drive is I:. Post Windows 2000, it really does not matter what the letter of your drives are, NTFS does not really use them (they are going away in Vista) mainly just there for your use, and so the CLI stuff still works.

The reason you won't let you change there are still critical files like boot.ini that are on C. They HAVE to be on the C drive, so you cannot reassign that drive as doing that would hopeless confuse Windows (and it won't boot).

If you really wnat to fix the problem, you need to disconnect all your drives except the Raptor. Delete the partition that its booting from (if it does not already assign it to C and reinstall windows.

If the drive is already C: just reinstall Windows on that, if not delete and recreate the partition and it should assign it C (unless there is more tha n1 partition on the Raptor)

Why is it registered 20 times? If you're talking about the 'replace significant hardware and have to reactivate' issue, then this is no problem.

Why is it registered 20 times? If you're talking about the 'replace significant hardware and have to reactivate' issue, then this is no problem.
no i'm talking about using it on 7 pcs with various reformats