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    Hard drive letter is "E" not "C" weird

    I just setup and installed Windows XP Pro on a customers system. Using the setup, I deleted the partition and re created it and installed XP pro and Service pack 2. All is working, but I just noticed while installing some software that the drive letter is set to "E" and not "C".
    Anyone know of a peice of software that I can use to change drive letters without having to start again from the beginning?

    Thanks

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    Quote Originally Posted by techmobile
    I just setup and installed Windows XP Pro on a customers system. Using the setup, I deleted the partition and re created it and installed XP pro and Service pack 2. All is working, but I just noticed while installing some software that the drive letter is set to "E" and not "C".
    Anyone know of a peice of software that I can use to change drive letters without having to start again from the beginning?

    Thanks
    I thought maybe you could go into the Disk Management and re-assign the drive letter, but it won't allow you to change the system or boot drive...
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    Do you still have another drive labelled C?

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    Primary IDE controler has one device(the hard drive)
    Secondary has two devices, Iomega zip and CD rom drive.

    The drive letters are, zip drive is F and the cdrom is D and the hard drive is E

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    Rob

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    During install, the zip got the c drive designation. I believe you'll have to re-install, but dis-connect the zip, and re-connect it after the re-install.
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    You don't have to re-install.

    Changing the System/Boot Drive Letter
    Make a full system backup of the computer and system state.
    Log on as an Administrator.
    Start Regedt32.exe.
    Go to the following registry key:
    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevices
    Click MountedDevices.
    On the Security menu, click Permissions.
    Check to make sure Administrators have full control. Change this back when you are finished with these steps.
    Quit Regedt32.exe, and then start Regedit.exe.
    Go to the following registry key:
    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevices
    Find the drive letter you want to change to (new). Look for "\DosDevices\C:".
    Right-click \DosDevices\C:, and then click Rename.

    NOTE: You must use Regedit instead of Regedt32 to rename this registry key.
    Rename it to an unused drive letter "\DosDevices\Z:". (This will free up drive letter C: to be used later.)
    Find the drive letter you want changed. Look for "\DosDevices\D:".
    Right-click \DosDevices\D:, and then click Rename.
    Rename it to the appropriate (new) drive letter "\DosDevices\C:".
    Click the value for \DosDevices\Z:, click Rename, and then name it back to "\DosDevices\D:".
    Quit Regedit, and then start Regedt32.
    Change the permissions back to the previous setting for Administrators (this should probably be Read Only).
    Restart the computer.

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    Or use partition magic 8
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