Help changing hard drive letter

[jamalanderson23]

Hey, ive researched a lot about how to change the hard drive letters on my computer. I recently reformatted my computer and my second hard drive is labeled F: instead of D:. I want it to show up as D:. I came to the conclusion that the easiest way is to reinstall windows xp again. But every time i reinstall it, the hard drive letter is F: again. How do i change the letter?

[osprey4]

You could try changing your optical drive(s) to a different letter, thus freeing up D, then change F to D. This can be done in Disk Management.

There's a downside to this. Many applications want to install with the disc in D, so you're potentially making some extra work for yourself. I frankly prefer having my "data" drive as a higher letter and using D and E for my DVD drives.

[jamalanderson23]

There is a problem with that. I already tried disk management, and i tried to change the hard drive letter but it says: Windows cannot modify the drive letter of your system volume or boot volume. So how can i change the letter?

[holdensrule]

Originally Posted by osprey4

You could try changing your optical drive(s) to a different letter, thus freeing up D, then change F to D. This can be done in Disk Management.

There's a downside to this. Many applications want to install with the disc in D, so you're potentially making some extra work for yourself. I frankly prefer having my "data" drive as a higher letter and using D and E for my DVD drives.

You sure you are changing it to an available letter? And the drive is not the system drive (where Win XP is currently booting from)? There shouldn't be any problems with that, as I did the same thing a week ago on my own computer....

[osprey4]

It seems you've loaded XP onto a second drive, which is now drive F. This cannot be changed without reinstalling.

[George S]

Originally Posted by jamalanderson23

Hey, ive researched a lot about how to change the hard drive letters on my computer. I recently reformatted my computer and my second hard drive is labeled F: instead of D:. I want it to show up as D:. I came to the conclusion that the easiest way is to reinstall windows xp again. But every time i reinstall it, the hard drive letter is F: again. How do i change the letter?

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