Reinstalling and drive letters.

[algae]

A question I should know ther answer to:
Do I have to create a new partition in order to get my boot drive to be C ? I went ahead and installed on a raw unpartioned drive and now my boot drive is E .
Thx for any help.

Gary

[iNeb]

Do you have winxp? I know how to change the drive letters in xp, not anything else..

[algae]

I can change letters on drives other than the boot drive, but it's the boot drive I need to change.

Gary

[iNeb]

Hmm, won't let me either, best bet would to remove all partitions and your other drive if you have any, reinstall then add partitions and your other drive later..

[algae]

Yeah I agree...just in the middle of reinstalling again...

G.

[PresterJohn]

actually, there is a way to change the drive letter for the boot partition w/o having to reinstall the OS. it requires editing some registry entries...there is no way to do it via the disk management gui (as you discovered...)

[tw1112]

I would do exactly as you are doing now. I tried, very recently actually, to change the bootdrive letter from the registry..all it caused me was a lot of pain. XP would not let me boot and it was unfixable. Luckily it was on a newly built pc so I had no problems with reinstalling xp. Now it works beautifully again