I recently pucrhased a new PC without a pre-installed OS, since I have a valid copy of Windows XP Pro and have un-installed it on the PC previously using it. However, since I had to install XP on the PC without any existing partitions, when it created the partition in the initital setup menu at the beginning of the installation, it automatically assigned my primary hard drive as F: drive (rather than C: drive).
When XP was finished installing, I checked the “My Computer” window, and F: drive was still assigned to my primary hard drive. C: and E: drives had been assigned to my the 2 slots in my 7-in-1 card reader as “Removable Disk(s)”, and my CD drive was designated as D: drive.
My question is, how do I change the drive letter names within Windows XP so that C: represents my primary hard drive? I can manually change the current drive letters set for the 7-in-1 card reader using the XP Disk Management snap-in, but when I try to change my hard drve’s letter, I receive an error message that says “Windows cannot modify the drive letter of your system volume or boot volume.” (Or is this normal behavior for PCs that have card readers?)