changing drive letter of xp boot volume

[careless_hxuk]

Hi all

For some reason, this new computer I built has the drive letters all wrong. My main drive, which should be C:, is in fact I:. This hasn't caused too many problems so far, as windows is quite happy to accept I: as its drive, but it causes problems on the network for various reasons.

Unfortunately, disk management won't let me simply change the drive letter, and the registry fix I tried (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/223188) just killed the machine. I had hoped it would be possible to use recovery console to do it, but I can't find any useful instructions on that.

I get the feeling it should be possible, but I'm not sure how. Any ideas?

[IcemanND]

Possible, yes. easy, no. worth the possible headaches usually not. You are better off reloading the machine so that the boot drive ends up being C: rather than trying to go through the registry and replacing every reference of I: to C:

[careless_hxuk]

Possible, yes. easy, no. worth the possible headaches usually not. You are better off reloading the machine so that the boot drive ends up being C: rather than trying to go through the registry and replacing every reference of I: to C:

I'm not sure what you mean by 'reloading'. It is permanently set at I: so restarting the machine doesn't make a difference, so presumably you meant I should reinstall windows? That would be a major headache, to be honest, so I'd be interested to hear the 'possible' options

[IcemanND]

By reloading I was referring to reinstalling the OS, only after you disconnect whatever device you had attached that is taking up the letters C-H, probably a card reader of some sort is my guess.

[CBC]

what iceman said. You either have more than one hdd or another device attached when you installed Windows, hence the non-C volume designation. I always disconnect my secondary drives , install the OS, then reconnect them.

[jaclaz]

FYI, related topic:

http://www.msfn.org/board/change-boot-driv...er-t124852.html

jaclaz