Incorrectly Labelled Hard Drive

Marie · 30 May 2006 at 08:21

Please can anyone help me?

When I installed Windows XP Pro on my pc it labelled the hard drive as the F-drive. The Floppy drive is labelled correctly as the A-drive but as this is a combined Floppy/card reader and this was connected to the mobo prior to the Windows installation I have since been told that this would cause the hard drive to be labelled incorrectly as F-drive and not as C-drive.

How can this be rectified simply so that the hard drive is correctly labelled as C-drive?

semi-pro waster · 30 May 2006 at 11:05

If it is the main boot drive then I don't think you can change the drive label so that Windows will recognise it as a C: drive. You could always disconnect the floppy/memory card reader while installing Windows as A: and B: are automatically reserved for floppy drives, then once Windows is installed the memory card drives will fit in after the hard drive and the floppy disk drive will take its name space as A:.

basmic · 30 May 2006 at 11:11

Go into the BIOS, and disable the floppy controller - assuming the card reader is on the floppy cable. If not, just disable it in the BIOS during install.

senorstealth · 1 Jun 2006 at 18:12

Provided its not the primary boot drive you can change the drive letters using computer management from the administrator tools.

Marie · 7 Jun 2006 at 18:21

Unfortunately the HDD is the Primary boot drive. Any further ideas please?

marc2003 · 7 Jun 2006 at 18:30

Marie said:
How can this be rectified simply so that the hard drive is correctly labelled as C-drive?

no way round it except to re-install windows i'm afraid.

Messiah Khan · 7 Jun 2006 at 18:47

marc2003 said:
no way round it except to re-install windows i'm afraid.

There is actually a way to fix it, can't quite remember how at the moment though im afraid. Its basically a registry hack boj job. I really wouldnt recommend it though, as your likely to cause more problems for yourself.

marc2003 · 7 Jun 2006 at 18:54

messiah khan said:
There is actually a way to fix it, can't quite remember how at the moment though im afraid. Its basically a registry hack boj job. I really wouldnt recommend it though, as your likely to cause more problems for yourself.

that would have to one hell of a bodge. :eek:

so many registry entries relate to the drive windows is installed on. not just registry entries either. i'm sure there's more to it than that with regards to windows startup files/bootsector files etc. i certainly would not recommend this.....

Jay_t · 8 Jun 2006 at 10:41

Yep, its a reinstall alright. I always disable all other hard drives when installing windows for this very reason.

Dutch Guy · 8 Jun 2006 at 11:56

As others have said a reinstall is the only way to get windows on the C: drive, you can change all drive letters except the one Windows is installed on

Efour · 8 Jun 2006 at 11:57

Yep i had mine on D:\ for a few months. TBH it means nothing but its a bit odd for the first week.

Topgun · 11 Jun 2006 at 14:01

I've done it before. Do the registry hack as suggested but before rebooting, Find decent registry editor the Find and Replace all "F:\" with "C:\".

mc_bob · 11 Jun 2006 at 14:06

My boot drive is a D:
Never got round to formatting but I got used to it and it hasnt bothered me.

MC_Bob