Formatting help?

Yucca · 2 Jul 2006 at 22:55

If this is in the wrong section please move it.

I am trying to install windows on my pc on a 300 gig hard drive. But its got a partition. So its 200gig on one and 100 on the other. The 200 gig partition is full of data so cant delete it as i need the info. I want to install windows on the 100 gig partition. But windows keeps making the data partition the c drive and wondows partition as a d.

How can i change this so wondows is c and the primary partition?

basmic · 2 Jul 2006 at 22:59

I'm not sure you can. It's do with the ordering of partitions, IIRC.

Did you partition while Windows was installed, and make the data drive the first partition?

As a rule, Primary partitions come first, then Extended partitions.

So if you had two drives, each with a primary and two extended partitions, the drive lettering should go like this:

Partition 1 2 3
.Drive 1: C E F
.Drive 2: D G H

Yucca · 3 Jul 2006 at 00:50

I made the partition on this drive using windows on another drive as i used to have two hard drives.

So there's no way of changing it now?

t31os · 3 Jul 2006 at 00:58

Here's microsofts info on changing drive letters, but i wouldnt guarantee it 100%, use at your own risk.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;307844&sd=tech

or see the other google results...

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=change+windows+drive+letters&btnG=Google+Search

Artheas · 3 Jul 2006 at 11:09

I had a similar 'problem' and using the method from the micorsoft site, everythings fine.

Yucca · 3 Jul 2006 at 11:50

Yes but you cant use that to change the letter of the windows drive?

t31os · 3 Jul 2006 at 12:23

Would'nt know, never been too fussy about drive letters to bother trying it.

Currently my Windows is on F:/ , which doesnt really matter, its only a letter. Works no different to if it was on C:/