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WRONG DRIVE LETTER

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by cliffl

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A freind of mine has just installed XP, unfortunately his hard drive is listed as F: he has 2 CD's and an internal Zip Drive how does one change it back to C: ?. I presume you cant just set it as the first drive, as all the software inside would be set to F:
Any ideas you experts ?.
Regards Cliff

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by jschein

right click my pc, goto manage... Goto drive management and change the drive letter....

by cliffl

Just changing the drive letter will not alter all the software pointing to F:, also accrding to windows you will not be able to boot the volume !.

by wcp

This problem seems to happen when the hard drive (HD) is new and when there is other I/O device (Zip drive or 6-in-1 drive, for example). Windows XP treats those drives as HDs and assign drive letter C: to one of them.
Unfortunately, you CANNOT reassign drive letter of System Volume.

Options:
1. Leave it the way it is.
2. Clean install Windows. But make sure the zip drive is not connected before the installation.

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