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Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 8:33 am
by ThingsGoBoom
Hi Guys,
Anyone know what's the best way to change a drive letter from my system disk from G to C? I had to do a format of my C drive. Already unplugged other drives, restarting, but it won't go to C.
Anyone know of a workaround?
Cheers.
Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 8:52 am
by djmicron
under win xp,
go to:
control panel/administration tools/computer management
choose disk management and right click the disk you want to change and choose change letter unit.
Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 8:59 am
by ThingsGoBoom
Nice one, thanks, only Windows does not allow the change of letter for the system drive.....
Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 9:16 am
by symbiote
Partition Magic has a gimmick that'll do it, it goes thru the registry and makes all the necessary changes to paths, should handle system drives fine.
Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 2:07 pm
by voidar
I have I: as the system disc
. I forgot to unplug the firewire drive when installing.
Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 4:12 pm
by Nestor
I strongly recomend you to use Acronis DisckDirector Suite for this, as you will solve the problems easity and securely. It doest it very well. You can also use PartitionMagic, from Symantec. Read the instruction and LEARN all about this topic, which is a dangerous one if you are not careful, then go change the letters.
Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 2:30 pm
by ThingsGoBoom
Thanks for the replies.
There is an option in the registry to do this, to change drive letters, but there's a big chance that Windows will not boot after this. So be careful.
Golden rule when reformatting C is to first uplug the power of the other drives in your system (as I have learned).