changed drive letter

[Howard Mintzer]

I had to reinstall winxp and now my c drive is e. (the cdrom is d). My
programs now don't point where they should, for instance the registry
says something should be on c drive and its now on e drive. How can i
fix this problem?

 

[Lance Zielinski]

Hi Howard,

I am assuming what your system is calling your E: drive is your System
Partition?

A quick search through the Windows XP Help and Support Center brought up
this article. I think it may assist you in your troubles:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;124298

Let me know if this works for you!

 

[Pavel]

Howard,

If you just installed the WindowsXP with out any other user installable
programs than what Lance pointed you to may be sufficient. BUT, if you now
have some other programs installed then it could get ugly and even to the
point that it probably be better to just re-install the OS properly. The
reason is that some programs do not follow certain guidelines and may have
drive letter pointers coded in such a way that simply changing path pointers
and registry entries may not work.
What I mean by installing OS properly is that your system drive is C. The
drive letter C is the best choice only because of that unknown program that
you may have or get later that only understand C as the default.
To insure that the letter C is chosen by the WindowsXP install, you need
to remove any hardware that may fool the installation in to thinking that
there is already drive C and that drive C is not suitable for installation.
One such device that comes to mind is a IDE ZIP drive that the installer
will see as such. You need to actually unplug it during the installation.
USB drives will also create such situation and should be unplugged.

 

[Lance Zielinski]

My apologies, I believe that I may have directed you to the wrong KB
article.

This one should work for you:

Drive Letters Change Unexpectedly When You Install Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;326683

That's the one I meant to send you! :: blushes ::

 

[Howard Mintzer]

thanks for the quick reply. ill do it tomorrow when i go to the office