Wrong Drive Letter! ARG!

medicnick83

medicnick83

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Okay, here is a first (even for me)

I installed Windows XP at work today on my new work PC that I spent the weekend building up.

I'm not sure why it did this, but once Windows was done installing, the C drive was E drive and the 2nd partition on the drive was C drive and the DVD drive was F or something like that.

How do I change the E drive to be C drive (nothing is C drive currently)

If I leave my flash drive in, Windows XP tries to boot from it.

Any ideas?
 
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dequadin

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Firstly I'd check your boot priority in your bios, that probably what's causing you PC to boot from the flash stick and not the hard drive.

To change drive letters in XP you must use disk management. Right click on "My Computer" select manage. You will see it there.
 
xrapidx

xrapidx

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Don't think you can change the WINDOWS drive in Manage My Computer?
 
xrapidx

xrapidx

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gdiza... how techie are you?

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=223188

Change the System/Boot Drive Letter
Important This section, method, or task contains steps that tell you how to modify the registry. However, serious problems might occur if you modify the registry incorrectly. Therefore, make sure that you follow these steps carefully. For added protection, back up the registry before you modify it. Then, you can restore the registry if a problem occurs. For more information about how to back up and restore the registry, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
322756 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/322756/) How to back up and restore the registry in Windows
1. Make a full system backup of the computer and system state.
2. Log on as an Administrator.
3. Start Regedt32.exe.
4. Go to the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevices
5. Click MountedDevices.
6. On the Security menu, click Permissions.
7. Verify that Administrators have full control. Change this back when you are finished with these steps.
8. Quit Regedt32.exe, and then start Regedit.exe.
9. Locate the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevices
10. Find the drive letter you want to change to (new). Look for "\DosDevices\C:".
11. Right-click \DosDevices\C:, and then click Rename.

Note You must use Regedit instead of Regedt32 to rename this registry key.
12. Rename it to an unused drive letter "\DosDevices\Z:".

This frees up drive letter C.
13. Find the drive letter you want changed. Look for "\DosDevices\D:".
14. Right-click \DosDevices\D:, and then click Rename.
15. Rename it to the appropriate (new) drive letter "\DosDevices\C:".
16. Click the value for \DosDevices\Z:, click Rename, and then name it back to "\DosDevices\D:".
17. Quit Regedit, and then start Regedt32.
18. Change the permissions back to the previous setting for Administrators (this should probably be Read Only).
19. Restart the computer.
Click to expand...
 
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