Drive Letters

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joe krsak

I have a Dell XPST 700 that I had to replace the Master
Hard drive in. When I did, I was careful to make sure the
jumpers were correct in both the Master and Slave drives.
After I installed XP Pro, the data Drive (w/6 partitions)
started with C: and XP was installed on J: (the new
drive). I tried restarting without the Slave, in hopes
that XP would reset the Master to C:, but no luck.

How can I get the Drive letters straightened out so that
XP on the Master is on C: ?

Thanks in advance.

Joe
 
As far as I know, you can set any partition, or removable drive's letter in
"Computer Administration"-> "Drive Administration" or so (excuse lousy
translation, I mean XP's integrated partitioning tool.) However, the one
drive letter it does not let you change is the one with XP boot-files on it
("System Partition"). PartitionMagic etc will let you do that, but I'd fully
expect it to throw your installation into chaos. Who needs C anyway ;P
 
joe krsak said:
How can I get the Drive letters straightened out so that
XP on the Master is on C: ?
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First, conventions aside, it truly doesn't matter. It's just a drive
letter.

If you want to get the system volume on the new drive to be C:, the easiest
way is to disconnect the second drive for the duration of the installation.
Then re-partition the new drive and reinstall Windows.
 
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