Changing to the C drive?

Energize · 31 May 2008 at 19:04

I've just installed windows on a computer with 2 hard drives and to my amazement it has designated the drive that windows isn't installed on as C! So I have a drive with 244kb of free space set as the C drive and the drive with windows on it set to J, thanks windows. :rolleyes:

Is there anyway to change the drive with windows installed on to the C drive?

Energize · 31 May 2008 at 19:37

dirtydog said:
Is there a particular problem with it being called a letter other than C: ?

Some programs insist on drive C, so I can forsee problems. Microsofts incompetence has struck once again.

Energize · 31 May 2008 at 19:41

dirtydog said:
Which programs insist on C? I've never come across that before - they usually insist on %windir% ...

I'm already having problems with the nvidia drivers.

Energize · 31 May 2008 at 23:59

Memphis said:
Umm, no, your incompetence you mean. Entirely serves you right actually for not ensuring you partitioned/formatted/installed/whatever correctly.

Wrong. There was no partitioning, I simply installed windows to the primary hard drive and windows decided it would rename it J and the secondary one C. There was no oppertunity for human error to occur. What's even more incompetent is that they don't allow the drive letters to be re-allocated in this situation. It would also never have happened if windows didn't allow the root administrator account to have access to all programs disabled via the security policy editor or for a user to disable their own access to programs. :rolleyes:

Energize · 1 Jun 2008 at 18:55

DustyMiller said:
For a user to be able to disable their own access, means the Administrator setup their access giving them full control, which is something that by default with Windows does not happen.

By default in windows xp admin accounts have full control of the security policies. The pc was bought from a shop with windows pre-installed on it, the user account was obviously administrator and thus allowed the user to edit their own security settings, a stupid decision by microsoft (why would someone want to disable all their account access?). Cue virus/malware editing the policy and locking all users out of the computer and needing a reformat.