drive letter change

[reiss]

hi
just done allot of formatting and reinstalling, and am having a little confusion over my drive letters.
i have 3 hard drives -
1 master seagate barracuda sata 160gb
1 master maxtor ide 80gb
1 slave samsung ide 40gb
on a abit ic7g
p4 3gb prescott
1gb dual ddr 400 kingston ram
OS winxp pro sp2

in hard disk priority within bios, the sata drive (my boot drive) is top priority and the maxtor is second.
yet within windows the maxtor is c: and the sata is e: (though still the boot drive) i have a few partition on both drives hence the drive letter e:

i went to windows management to change the drive letters and it wouldn't let me change the system drive letter from e: to c:

just more comfortable having my main drive as c:

im sure there's another way of doing it, just cant think of one.

cheers
chris

[MitaDC]

you may be able to do it in Partition Magic but I am not sure, I will check on mine


ok yup in partition magic change your c drive to another letter, then change the letter of your sata drive, be careful though if your system tries to boot looking for E:\* then you will be screwed cuz u changed it...

[reiss]

thanks MITA that was the fastest response i ever had!!

chris

[MitaDC]

np

[Tekk]

Windows will not allow you to change the drive letter of the system volume or boot volume. My suggestion if its that important is to go back to the beginning, only this time disconnect any other HDDs that will be for storage purposes (non bootable drives in other words). This way you're pretty much gaurenteed the sata drive to be C cause it'll be the only connected HDD

But as far as partition magic is concerned I dont know. Through disk management: no. Through Partition magic: Mita may know


EDIT:

Aww...3 minutes too late

[MitaDC]

well I didn't attempt to change my boot drive letter lol, I wouldn't be talking to u anymore :P but when I go into partition magic, it lets me change the drive letter and then I could set my F drive to C and it will change it on next boot....

so I would be changing

C->F
F->C
not gonna try it for real though

[reiss]

thanks again Mita
I have partition magic somewhere, will give it a go.

[sechs]

You can change the drive letter of any volume which does not have system, boot, or page files using the Windows disk manager.

Using Partition Magic may lead to undesireable results.

[reiss]

as i mentioned sechs, i am trying to change my system drive letter. but thanks anyway.

[sechs]

A very bad idea....