Changing Drive Letter for System Volume

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For any experts out there: I recently formatted my hard
drive (to get rid of all of the smut that accumulated
through 5 years of use). After I formatted my master
drive into a raw file system, I began to reinstall
Windows XP Pro. Within the setup, I reformatted the drive
with the NTFS file system and it renamed my system/boot
drive from C: to F:. When I go to Drive Manager it won't
let me change the drive letter for the F: drive
(system/boot drive) which is understandable. I was just
wondering if anyone knows how to get the drive letter
back to C:. Thank you to everyone that reads this and I'm
not worthy to anyone who solves this. Thanks again.
 
For any experts out there: I recently formatted my hard
drive (to get rid of all of the smut that accumulated
through 5 years of use). After I formatted my master
drive into a raw file system, I began to reinstall
Windows XP Pro. Within the setup, I reformatted the drive
with the NTFS file system and it renamed my system/boot
drive from C: to F:. When I go to Drive Manager it won't
let me change the drive letter for the F: drive
(system/boot drive) which is understandable. I was just
wondering if anyone knows how to get the drive letter
back to C:. Thank you to everyone that reads this and I'm
not worthy to anyone who solves this. Thanks again.
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I had a similar problem when I fitted a new hard-disk.

I found the easiest way was to create a backup using Automated System
Recovery (part of Backup under System Tools), move to the new
hard-disk, and then restore from that.

Took some fiddling, but worked ok in the end.

Hope this helps!
 
pay attention to reboots

- Change Disk Drive Letters

First you must remember that you CANNOT change the letter for the

boot drive if it contains the PAGEFILE.SYS (swap file) and/or HIBERFILE.SYS(hibernate file).

To move pagefile.sys use Control Panel | System | Advanced tab | Settings

under Performance | Advanced tab again | Virtual Memory and CHANGE

button. set the drive you want to move FROM to NO Paging File and click on SET.

set the drive you want to move TO and click SET.

To turn off page file, same as above, but select No Paging file and then clickthe SET button

To disable hiberfile.sys use Control Panel | Power Options Hibernate tab.

THEN REBOOT and Control Panel | Administrative Tools | Computer Management | Disk

Management under Storage, then RIGHT click on the drive letter to change

and select the Change Letter option.

THEN following the first procedure set the PAGEFILE.SYS back to the

drive it was on originally.

XP automatically adjusts the registry for the drive letter changes.



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For any experts out there: I recently formatted my hard
drive (to get rid of all of the smut that accumulated
through 5 years of use). After I formatted my master
drive into a raw file system, I began to reinstall
Windows XP Pro. Within the setup, I reformatted the drive
with the NTFS file system and it renamed my system/boot
drive from C: to F:. When I go to Drive Manager it won't
let me change the drive letter for the F: drive
(system/boot drive) which is understandable. I was just
wondering if anyone knows how to get the drive letter
back to C:. Thank you to everyone that reads this and I'm
not worthy to anyone who solves this. Thanks again.
 
I tried the instructions below on several different machines with no luck.
Has anyone gotten this to work?


pay attention to reboots

- Change Disk Drive Letters
First you must remember that you CANNOT change the letter for the
boot drive if it contains the PAGEFILE.SYS (swap file) and/or
HIBERFILE.SYS(hibernate file).
To move pagefile.sys use Control Panel | System | Advanced tab | Settings
under Performance | Advanced tab again | Virtual Memory and CHANGE
button. set the drive you want to move FROM to NO Paging File and click on
SET.
set the drive you want to move TO and click SET.
To turn off page file, same as above, but select No Paging file and then
clickthe SET button
To disable hiberfile.sys use Control Panel | Power Options Hibernate tab.
THEN REBOOT and Control Panel | Administrative Tools | Computer Management |
Disk
Management under Storage, then RIGHT click on the drive letter to change
and select the Change Letter option.
THEN following the first procedure set the PAGEFILE.SYS back to the
drive it was on originally.
XP automatically adjusts the registry for the drive letter changes.

(e-mail address removed)

For any experts out there: I recently formatted my hard
drive (to get rid of all of the smut that accumulated
through 5 years of use). After I formatted my master
drive into a raw file system, I began to reinstall
Windows XP Pro. Within the setup, I reformatted the drive
with the NTFS file system and it renamed my system/boot
drive from C: to F:. When I go to Drive Manager it won't
let me change the drive letter for the F: drive
(system/boot drive) which is understandable. I was just
wondering if anyone knows how to get the drive letter
back to C:. Thank you to everyone that reads this and I'm
not worthy to anyone who solves this. Thanks again.
 
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