How to change system drive letter to C:

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Majstor

Hello,

Due to an flash disk attached during installation of WXP professional,
System drive has been mapped as H:.
Is there a possibility to change mapping to original "C:" letter?

Regards,
Dusan
 
Third party software like Partition Magic by PowerQwest have a drive mapper.
It will do as you are asking.
Cheers Doug
 
Doug,

I did not know that you could change the system drive. How does that work?
How will all the installed programs know? Actually, I doubt that you can do
it with out major problems. The only way to do it right is by re-install
with out any hardware that may force the installer to use drive other than
C.
 
Pavel said:
I did not know that you could change the system drive. How does that work?
How will all the installed programs know? Actually, I doubt that you can do
it with out major problems. The only way to do it right is by re-install
with out any hardware that may force the installer to use drive other than
C.
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Since you're at the end of your rope, how about trying Disk Manage in
Windows XP to rename the system drive to C:? This presupposes that
the installed software doesn't hard-code paths to include the drive letter,
but just uses relative paths which don't include the name of the drive.
Right click My Computer, select Manage, select Disk Management,
right click on the disk drive that you want to rename to "C". Remember
that the BIOS and the boot loader don't care about the drive letter, but
just whether the drive has a bootable partition and whether it is the
highest priority bootable drive in the boot sequence (i.e. HD boot priority
list). Post if you have any success.

*TimDaniels*
 
When I did it, Partition Magic v8.0 also went into the registry and who
knows where all else and changed every old drive letter reference to the new
active one. This is where it all becomes magic to me.
Cheers Doug
 
As a programmer from the old times of CP/M and before, I know first hand
that there are many ways to tell program where it should be looking for
whatever and if the program can not find what it is looking for it may or
may not work right. Just because Partition Magic v8.0 does some magic, it
does not mean that every program is going to cooperate and that could spell
disaster for that one person that ends up with extremely important data lost
because he used "older, poorly written" program.
Don't; get me wrong, Partition Magic is one of those programs I can not
live with out, but this particular feature....I just do not trust completely
when it comes to System drive letter change.
 
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