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Changing drive letters?

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by bradlf

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I purchased a used Dell Optiplex GX260 and have installed XP Pro (finally), but the drives are lettered out of order. I am used to C being my primary (boot) drive, but my boot drive is now G, secondary drive is C, and my external drive is D.
Is there anything I can do to change this? I tried the Windows drive program (?) but it would not let me change G because it was the boot drive.

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by oh smeg

But first remove any Drives not necessary to the System so that means do not connect anything not directly required to Load the system.

If you try anything else the G Drive [b]Can Not[/b] be changed because it's the Boot Drive and will always be that letter no matter what you do. This has happened because you needed to Format that Drive and the others where already formatted so it was moved to the end of the line.

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by seanferd

that G:\ is a recovery partition? Perhaps the contents of the G:\ drive need to be looked at.

Or: bootable flash drive?

by bradlf

Can I do an Upgrade installation or does it have to be a new install?

by thumbsup2

Upgrade will only update the existing installation, not the drive letter.

You need to FDISK and start over fresh.

Note: If you're installing an XP Upgrade, you don't need to install the previous older OS's before you put on XP. But, you WILL need to have a previous OS installation disk handy so that when it tells you it can't find anything to "upgrade", you put the older OS into the drive and show XP where it's at. Once that is done, the upgrade will proceed as if it's a fresh new install, nice and clean.

by bradlf

Another question on my BIOS (AO6): It does not show my second hard drive or the second cd (dvd) drive but windows does. Is this a problem or not?

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