XP boot drive changed from C: to G:, how to change back?

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I have a 40G hard drive split into 2 partitions, C: and D:. C:
originally held Win 98 and when I bought XP Pro I split the partition to
create D: and clean installed XP on D:. Eventually just deleted Win 98
from C: and use that for storage. Today when I booted my system I was
having problems accessing some of the stuff on C:. When I opened My
Computer I saw that C: is now G: Computer Management won't let me change
the drive letter of the boot drive. How can I change this back to c:?
 
michael said:
search the windows help file for 'drive letter' and it will tell you how to do it
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Thanks for the suggestion. I've already tried to change it using
Computer Management but got an error that system or boot volume letters
cannot be changed. My G:, which used to be c:, is the system and/or boot
drive. I tried diskpart from the command line and got the same error.
 
Jerry said:
I have a 40G hard drive split into 2 partitions, C: and D:. C:
originally held Win 98 and when I bought XP Pro I split the partition to
create D: and clean installed XP on D:. Eventually just deleted Win 98
from C: and use that for storage. Today when I booted my system I was
having problems accessing some of the stuff on C:. When I opened My
Computer I saw that C: is now G: Computer Management won't let me change
the drive letter of the boot drive. How can I change this back to c:?
Click to expand...

Just for grins I searched thru the registry for "G:\" and found 1 entry
in HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup\BootDir set to
G:\ Several of the other keys there still show c:\... paths. Would
changing this one key back to c:\ fix the problem or hose things up
completely?
 
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