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dman777   07-18-2006 at 01:05:07 AM

I am building a computer for a person and it has a muilti boot system with windows 98se on c: and windows xp pro on e:. well, for certian reasons my customer already has plans for e: so is it possible to change the e: drive letter which has windows xp pro to the letter z? I want to change the drive letter to Z: because I know my customer doesn't have that reserved for anything.

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sturm   07-18-2006 at 02:02:23 AM
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In short no you cant.

Take a look at these links. They all say you shouldnt do this if nothing is wrong.

Your best bet would be to reinstall xp on a different partition.

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