c: is not my hard drive

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Hi
I build a new base unit and decided to put a 7 in 1 floppy drive in .
Basically its a floppy drive with card access such as sd etc for digital
camera memory cards. Now two of the memory card slots are labeled as C and D
and my hard drive has gone to N. I know it will not cause problems, I just
wanted to know if it was possible to change the drive letters around. I use
XP pro.
Many thanks.

 

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It is possible. Right click on My Computer and select Manage. Now go
down to Disk Management. Right click and change drive letter on
whatever is C:\ and change it to something else. This frees up C: and
you can change your HD to C:. While you are at it, you can relable all
of the drives to whatever you like

Nathan McNulty


brian lawrence wrote:
> Hi
> I build a new base unit and decided to put a 7 in 1 floppy drive in .
> Basically its a floppy drive with card access such as sd etc for digital
> camera memory cards. Now two of the memory card slots are labeled as C and D
> and my hard drive has gone to N. I know it will not cause problems, I just
> wanted to know if it was possible to change the drive letters around. I use
> XP pro.
> Many thanks.
>
>

 

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Hi Nathan,

WinXP will not allow the volume housing the system files to be relettered,
so this will not work.

Brian:

*If* (and only if) WinXP was already installed as C:\, and the later
addition of the 7-in-1 drive caused these changes, then follow the
procedures here:

HOW TO: Restore the System/Boot Drive Letter in Windows
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=223188

If the current drive letter assignments are because you installed WinXP
while the drive was already attached, then you will need to reinstall the
system while the drive is removed, then add it later. During setup, you will
need to delete the existing system partition and create a new one, or you
will end up right back where you started.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"Nathan McNulty" <525676@microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:O2XL7ZnXEHA.2664@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> It is possible. Right click on My Computer and select Manage. Now go
> down to Disk Management. Right click and change drive letter on
> whatever is C:\ and change it to something else. This frees up C: and
> you can change your HD to C:. While you are at it, you can relable all
> of the drives to whatever you like
>
> Nathan McNulty
>
>
> brian lawrence wrote:
> > Hi
> > I build a new base unit and decided to put a 7 in 1 floppy drive in .
> > Basically its a floppy drive with card access such as sd etc for digital
> > camera memory cards. Now two of the memory card slots are labeled as C
and D
> > and my hard drive has gone to N. I know it will not cause problems, I
just
> > wanted to know if it was possible to change the drive letters around. I
use
> > XP pro.
> > Many thanks.
> >
> >

 

[GTS]

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Was XP installed to the drive while it was identified as N? If so, it is
not advisable to change it and is likely to cause extensive problems because
of the hundreds of references in the registry to the installation drive.
That being said, it is technically possible as explained in "HOW TO: Restore
the System/Boot Drive Letter in Windows"
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=223188

(I have found this useful a few times when a drive letter got changed in a
disk imaging process, but the actual Windows installation had been done with
the original drive as C. Other than that, it's hard to think of a case
where it would be likely to succeed without at least being followed by a
repair installation.)
--

"brian lawrence" <brian.lawrence@baesystems.com> wrote in message
news:40e26d2a$1_1@baen1673807.greenlnk.net...
> Hi
> I build a new base unit and decided to put a 7 in 1 floppy drive in .
> Basically its a floppy drive with card access such as sd etc for digital
> camera memory cards. Now two of the memory card slots are labeled as C and
D
> and my hard drive has gone to N. I know it will not cause problems, I just
> wanted to know if it was possible to change the drive letters around. I
use
> XP pro.
> Many thanks.
>
>

 

[Guest]

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XP was installed at the time the drive was attached.
After much thought I have to decided to leave everything as it is. I will
take out the drive at my next re-build .
"GTS" <x> wrote in message news:eWFEArsXEHA.312@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> Was XP installed to the drive while it was identified as N? If so, it is
> not advisable to change it and is likely to cause extensive problems
because
> of the hundreds of references in the registry to the installation drive.
> That being said, it is technically possible as explained in "HOW TO:
Restore
> the System/Boot Drive Letter in Windows"
> http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=223188
>
> (I have found this useful a few times when a drive letter got changed in a
> disk imaging process, but the actual Windows installation had been done
with
> the original drive as C. Other than that, it's hard to think of a case
> where it would be likely to succeed without at least being followed by a
> repair installation.)
> --
>
> "brian lawrence" <brian.lawrence@baesystems.com> wrote in message
> news:40e26d2a$1_1@baen1673807.greenlnk.net...
> > Hi
> > I build a new base unit and decided to put a 7 in 1 floppy drive in .
> > Basically its a floppy drive with card access such as sd etc for digital
> > camera memory cards. Now two of the memory card slots are labeled as C
and
> D
> > and my hard drive has gone to N. I know it will not cause problems, I
just
> > wanted to know if it was possible to change the drive letters around. I
> use
> > XP pro.
> > Many thanks.
> >
> >
>
>