How do I change drive letter I:\ to C:\ ?

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I've bought a new HDD and have transfered C:\ to it using the Seagate tools. Now I want I:\ to become C:\ ,my boot drive. Administrative tools won't allow it. How do I go about changing the drive letter?

(I have the new HDD running via a Serial ATA PCI controller card)
 
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Off the top of my head, I'd do this:

Take out the C: drive, install Windows on the I: drive which will now be the C: drive, put the other drive back in and transfer the data to it.
 
I dont want to do a fresh windows install though. (This installation has been good since winter 2001!) The data on I:\ is exactly the same as C:\
 
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Just swap the drives around and see what happens... If the Seagate Tools did an image copy, then even though the new drive currently shows up as I:, it should show up as C: when swapped around and booted from.
 
wsh said:
I dont want to do a fresh windows install though. (This installation has been good since winter 2001!) The data on I:\ is exactly the same as C:\
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Hmm, yeah, as said above swap them round then set the correct one to boot and as master in the BIOS.
 
I took out the cable and power to c:\ and told the BIOS of my ancient Abit KR7A-133 to boot from raid133 (although the drive is actually SATA 150 connected to a RAID PCI card) and the windows black screen came up with boot options saying there was a registry error. I select boot normally and the windows 98 boot screen appears and doesn't go! Not seen that in years. WTF!
 
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