Disk management + changing drive letters

[Guv]

I have 2 partitions - C and D drive.
I just reinstalled windows but when given the option to choose which drive to install to the drive letters had changed over so D was the smaller partition to install to and C is the larger partition on with files I want to keep.

I continued with the install to drive D. I now want to change the drive letters but disk management says 'windows cannot modify the drive letter of your system volume or boot volume.'

C is the system volume
D is the boot volume

So is there any way to sort this out without removing all partitions and starting a fresh?


thanks

 

[bledd]

nope

 

[Guv]

nope

simple answer then, thanks.

 

[bledd]

sorry, wish there was a way! C: will by default be the first created partition at the start of the drive


if you have two partitions, then you DELETE and re-create the first one, this often becomes D:

what you can do when you reinstall is select the first one, then at the next screen it'll ask 'do you want to format it, or leave data in tact'

^this might be what you've done



you can redirect things like Documents and Settings folder to the 2nd partition (when in windows right click, properties on my documents), this will put all those files on D: for you, so when you reinstall they'll all be safe

 

[helmutcheese]

Officially, NO you cannot change the boot drive letter as it goes to deep with every file/folder and reg entry.

Unofficially, YES but it can mess up (about 90% chance) so I wont cause you that headache.