Drive letters wrong way round

Wiggins · 24 Aug 2007 at 16:46

I wonder if someone can help me.

I did a fresh install of XP the other day onto a new HDD and forgot to take out the secondary one while doing this.

In disk management, I have the HDD with XP as 'D' Drive and the spare I have is the 'C' drive.

I want to change the letters around so XP is 'c' and spare is 'd' and would like to know which is the best way of doing it?

Thank You

manjuice · 24 Aug 2007 at 17:40

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307844

helmutcheese · 24 Aug 2007 at 18:01

You wont change drive letter of the Windows HDD AFAIK, you can do it with 3rd Party APP's, and it probably will mess up as it runs too deep, right down to every REG Entry.

buachille · 25 Aug 2007 at 18:11

above post is correct. i've attempted to do this with drive image in the past and it messed up totally.

is there any reason why you need windows to be on c. it is a bit safer to have it on D anyway, so i've read, as hackers, or their scripts, will search for a windows install on C.

jellybeard999 · 25 Aug 2007 at 19:19

I've had this problem before, best compromise i've found is to make the storage drive " E "

If i dont want the letters to mess up, i disconnect the spare HDDs when installing windows :rolleyes:

g00dsh0t · 27 Aug 2007 at 03:32

+ make sure theres no media card readers connected....

as posted, its easier to install xp again.
it isnt just hackers that look for windows on C drive, ALL software/games etc will try to install on there too......you are asking for trouble m8 if xp is not on C:\

mattyrigby00 · 27 Aug 2007 at 09:07

g00dsh0t said:
+ make sure theres no media card readers connected....
as posted, its easier to install xp again.
it isnt just hackers that look for windows on C drive, ALL software/games etc will try to install on there too......you are asking for trouble m8 if xp is not on C:\

most software/games use the %SystemRoot% etc vars.

buachille · 27 Aug 2007 at 09:31

g00dsh0t said:
it isnt just hackers that look for windows on C drive, ALL software/games etc will try to install on there too......you are asking for trouble m8 if xp is not on C:\

sorry but that isn't the case. i've had windows installed on D loads of times and never had a problem.

when you go to install programs or games, they will offer to install on D:\Program Files. if you have windows on M:\, the they will offer to install on M:\Program Files, and so on, and anyway, you can tell a program where to install yourself. only certain ms apps will insist on installing into the root drives program files folder.

helmutcheese · 27 Aug 2007 at 13:16

buachille said:
sorry but that isn't the case. i've had windows installed on D loads of times and never had a problem.

when you go to install programs or games, they will offer to install on D:\Program Files. if you have windows on M:\, the they will offer to install on M:\Program Files, and so on, and anyway, you can tell a program where to install yourself. only certain ms apps will insist on installing into the root drives program files folder.

Most installers for games etc wont, APPS normally will, you need to tell it new location, its simplier to del the C and put in D instead of browsing.

silversurfer · 27 Aug 2007 at 16:23

Ive used windows other then C: for years and I even mix different windows versions on the same partition, etc

I want to know how to alter program files variable though because it just defaults to the same partition as the windows dir. Faster loading would be had if I could put it on another drive without having to manual alter everything