Windows reinstall partition woes

Tom|Nbk · 11 Mar 2007 at 20:57

Basically for some reason on reinstall Windows has named one of my other drives to C: and my main drive with Windows on as E:, now i can't change the drive letters because the C: drive is the system drive :confused:

and the E: drive the boot drive, what can i do without formatting the C: labeled drive to change my E: (Windows drive) back to drive letter C:. Iv'e had a problem like this before with XP setup but forgot how to sort it.

Tom|Nbk · 11 Mar 2007 at 23:22

thanks will try this, will i have any problems rebooting into xp?

Tom|Nbk · 12 Mar 2007 at 00:49

kip02 said:
I tried this last week with mine because i was having the same problem of my windows partition being on D. I ended up formatting as it got just past the windows boot screen then froze everytime.

Plus if it will work won't programs that have been installed say to the d:\program files folder have problems?

Yea theoretically it would, so after you did this when you went to reinstall were the drive names you had changed to corrected on the setup list installation drive list?

Tom|Nbk · 12 Mar 2007 at 15:26

kip02 said:
Yeah so when i reinstalled it had it the correct way round. Or even if you just change the present C to say H or something using the method in the link posted then reinstall the new drive\partition should install to C becuase you are just freeing up the drive letter.

Thanks mate, your a star hopefully this should work.

Tom|Nbk · 12 Mar 2007 at 16:31

Nah for some reason it dosnt want to work for me, i free'd up the current C: and still it defaults my partition i need to install windows to as E: and another full parition as C:, the only way i can see sorting it is by deleting the partition on setup but this isn't convinient as that paritions full of important data, Help someone? :eek:

Tom|Nbk · 12 Mar 2007 at 17:05

FFS, guess ill have to live with the HDD being E:

even unplugging the drives most likely won't work. God ****ing Windows if anyone has any other ideas please let me know.

Tom|Nbk · 12 Mar 2007 at 17:29

marc2003 said:
why do you say that? if you only have 1 partition on each drive then it will most definitely work.

I have three partitions on each drive, and the wrong labeleled partition is on the same drive as the E:

Tom|Nbk · 12 Mar 2007 at 18:02

Cheers

Tom|Nbk · 12 Mar 2007 at 18:28

I've noticed for some reason some of my partitions are logical drives, could the fact E: is a logical drive be causing any problems? .

Tom|Nbk · 12 Mar 2007 at 18:44

can this not be solved any other way

, such as deleting the logical drives?