Changing Hard Drive Designations

[tlcmd]

First, thanks to all for previous advice.

My computer is an 8 year old one with a 2.66 dual core pentium chip, 2 Gigs of RAM, and 2 HDD's: one is 160 Gig (labeled C) The other 320 Gig (labeled D. I am running Windows XP SP3 on the 160 Gig HDD and Linux Mint Debian Edition (a rolling distro) on the 320 GFor a myriad of reasons, I'm going to have to reformat and reload both drives. I do have them backed up on a 1 TB external HDD.

MY QUESTION: HOW DO I RELABEL THE HDD'S? I'd like the 320HDD to be C and the 160 HDD to be D.

Thanks again.

tlcmd (ak Dick)

[jaclaz]

It's not "label" it is "drive letter assignment".

Drive letter assignment is (normally) made automatically by Windows XP install along a "set of rules".

See here:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/234048/en-us

(the rules are the same in 2K and XP)

There are two ways you can workaround the default automatic assignment, one involves hiding partitions (and/or disconnecting hard disks, etc.) the other is more elegant, all is needed is to add a (suitably created) migrate.inf to the setup directory on hard disk, see:

http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=19663

BOTH the above apply to a new install, if you are planning to "reload" your current XP "as is", though possible in theory it will cause each and every possible issue with installed applications (+1 more) and it is fairly complex, so my personal advice is to NOT do it.

If you really want to go that way, start from here:

jaclaz