change drive letters

[Adodikan]

is there a way to change the system drive letter in windows XP? it says it cant change the letter because its the system drive. thanks for any help

[adams]

you can with partition magic 7, well don't know about the system drive letter though.

[puzzled_shrug]

Intended For
Windows XP
Windows 2000
Windows Me
Windows 98
Windows 95

There are two ways that disk drives get drive letters on a PC. The first kind are the ones controlled by your BIOS. These usually include your floppy and most hard drives, for which drive letters are created when your system is first turned on. The second kind of drives are controlled by software, or more specifically, drivers. These types of drives include CD-ROMs, Syquests and other removables, network drives, and sometimes SCSI hard disks with ID's other than zero (0) or one (1). Generally, drive letters are assigned to these drives depending on the order in which they are loaded.

Here's how you can change some of your drive letters:
Windows 2000 and Windows XP

Open the Disk Management console (diskmgmt.msc).
Right-click on any drive, and select Change drive letter and path.
Windows will let you know if the drive letter cannot be changed for some reason.


[i:9d56cb7833]You will not be able to change the drive letter of your system or boot volume.[/i:9d56cb7833]

However, the drive letters of all other drives and drive volumes are changeable.


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