Changing to the C drive?

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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?
 
I've installed Windows on drives other than C: before, when dual booting, and I've never had problems of any kind, so I'm puzzled.
 
I have windows xp on H: (i had a USB card reader plugged in while installing windows), never had any real problems, some programs attempt to read C: by default, which just produces an error (please insert a disc into C or something).
I've never come across anything that will only install to C though.
 
Memphis said:
Umm, no, your incompetence you mean. Entirely serves you right actually for not ensuring you partitioned/formatted/installed/whatever correctly.
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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:
 
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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:

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.

If your administrator had setup the policies to apply to the admiistrator account, then they too would have had the same restrictions applies to their accounts, and thus not ahd access to the disabled programs.

So the root cause of your drive letter headache, is the inability of your administrator to secure the system in the correct manner, not windows inability to rename a boot drive. :(
 
Yes you can change the boot drive letter to C, I've done it, and did so by following these instructions

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/223188/en-us

When I first installed Vista, I wanted to keep an XP system as a backup, so I used Ghost/Acronis to move XP off my Raptor, to another partition, and then installed Vista on my Raptor.

When I booted into XP however, it came up as being installed on Drive Y or something.

I followed the instructions on the above site, and now both Vista and XP appear as Drive C when I boot into them.

HTH
Vin.
 
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.
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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.
 
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Vista's most endearing feature is the fact it calls it's bootdrive C: no matter what. Much more like a real OS.

I'd re-install tbh, I ended up with XP on G a while back and thought I'd just leave it, but lots of stuff seemed to have c: hardcoded instead of reading $WINDIR, and also it soon became apparent that my persistant stuff (ie the other partitions full of games and apps that don't need to be "Installed"), was all messed up because every reference it had for the system was still for C:.
Rather than re-install 60GB+ of crap, I reinstalled 2GB of windows (ie, 1/30th the amount of total crap :D )
 
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