WinXP Harddrive Change

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Question: What is the easiest way to change my Master
drive (accidentally was named E) to C?

My problem is that I decided to do several upgrades on my
Dell Dimension 8100.
I added a 120GB second hard drive; I added 256MB more of
RAM, and I also upgraded my operating system from WinME to
WinXP. The problem is that I wanted the 120GB hard drive
as the master and the original 20GB hard drive as the
slave. So I installed them as such. And, when I
installed the WinXP upgrade software, it created my new
120GB Master as drive E. I really want my new Master
drive as drive C, so, I renamed the old slave drive C to
drive F and tried to rename the Master drive to C but the
system won't let me rename it.

Any feedback would be appreciated. Thanks.
 
My understanding is that XP will let you rename any drive
(in the manner you did it) BUT your C drive. You might be
stuck with it as a D drive.
 
That is correct. In Windows 2000, you could do this by a registry change.
However, if you do the same procedure in 2000 on an XP box, you will
probably never get booted again. This is because Windows XP is much more
coded to the drive letter, used for Windows Product Activation and other
cryptography-related components.
 
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