HDD config problems

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NewsJunkie

Recently I re-installed Windows XP home edition from scratch and after
having done so, I noticed my only hard disk drive was assigned the drive
letter of "F".

Can anyone advise me on how to change it to "local drive C:" ?
I really need to change this so I can install the rest of my applications.

Please help....


Jim
 
go into the control panel ==> administrative tools ==> computer management

Once there click on disk management. A list of drives with letters will
come up. Right click on the F drive and choose change drive letter. Change
it to the letter you want.

Hello NewsJunkie,
 
Thanks Sean, but I gave that a try after seeing your reply and it would not
allow me to change it there. I do have administrator status too.

Jim
 
NewsJunkie said:
Recently I re-installed Windows XP home edition from scratch and after
having done so, I noticed my only hard disk drive was assigned the drive
letter of "F".

Can anyone advise me on how to change it to "local drive C:" ?
I really need to change this so I can install the rest of my applications.

Please help....


Jim
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You CANNOT change the drive letter of your system drive.

Though having it assigned the letter F: won't do any harm...
it's not usual by any means.

The drive you used must have previously been a clone.

If you would like your system to use the conventional C: drive...
you would need to reinstall XP and when you do so you'd have to *entirely
delete* the drive and start over.

Might as well do so now as long as it's a fresh install and you have not yet
created data etc..
 
NewsJunkie said:
Thanks Sean, but I gave that a try after seeing your reply and it would
not allow me to change it there. I do have administrator status too.

Jim
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Jim:
As you've discovered, Sean's suggested "fix" won't work. The system will
simply not allow you to change your "F:" partition to a "C:" system
partition. There have been some published reports of a registry hack that
will allow one to do this but in our experience they simply don't work.

The only practical solution to your problem is to reinstall, i.e., fresh
install, the XP OS onto your HDD. But this time - during the initial phase
of the setup - delete all your partitions presently residing on your HDD and
then create the necessary partition for your XP OS. The system will then
designate the drive assignment with the C: letter. (I'm assuming in all this
that there's no current data on that HDD that you need since, as I'm sure
you understand, all data will be deleted during the partitioning/formatting
process. In the event there *is* data on that HDD that you need, copy it
before undertaking the fresh install of the OS).

Apparently when you originally installed the XP OS onto your HDD there
currently existed a C: system partition and that accounts why the OS
designated a different drive letter to the OS you installed.
Anna
 
I forgot about that system drive thing but there is software like partition
magic that will allow you to boot to a cd change the drive letter and it
will make the necessary changes in the registry.

I agree with everyone else, having the system drive as f: will not hurt anything.

Hello philo,
 
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