Windows XP SP2. My Disk Drive have been accidently named as F , G and H, i can re-name G and H Drive to D and E but using computer management but wheni try to rename the drive letter for F which has operating system installed on it , it says the Drive Letter cannot be changed. Can this be changed in anyways.
You can use Partition Management software to reassign the drive letter. BUT HAVE A BACKUP FIRST! A quick Google search turns up a plethora of software. I've used both Acronis True Image and Symantec Ghost with good results. The downside is if you have installed software with the drives at their current assignments, you will need to reinstall the software. Otherwise, like supertoad said, reinstall Windows. If you do that, be sure to have only your ROM drive and HDD's connected. This problem happened to my when I had my card reader connected while installing Windows. Windows thought each card slot was a floppy disk. Good luck.
As said, a reinstall is the easiest way. (And that might mess up the drive letters even more.) But does it really matter that much? Why not just leave it as it is?
LISTEN TO THIS.....as a rule of thumb whenever i format, all drives excluding boot drive and one optical lose power. this way windows only see's 1 hdd and will only assign c: to it. the optical will probably appear as d:, but then when you connect the other drives in you can move them all around in management as you have done before and c will always be c: but you'll have to do this every time you format, but its not really a chore when all you are doing is taking powercables out. smells like a powerdown, plugs out and reinstall that windows dinjo_jo, peace fatman p.s this happened to me on the first sata and pata board i had some years ago, they wanted the pata to be c: but i wanted the sata to be my boot. problem easily fixed. oh and to answer your question...no the boot drive letter cannot be changed once windows puts it big lazy a$$ on it
for me, i find it feckin irritating if they change. after a format i always have drives labelled and ordered in the same way for familiarity. eg. C: "tits 'n'" - windows and games installs D: "ass" - my documents/porn/software/music/pr0n E: "axe wound" - movies F: "gezzasplace" - tv shows G: "money shot" - downloads/movie overflow H: optical I: optical please note, the drive letters and contents are purely hypothetical, the names of the drives however, are not! peace fatman p.s will i get told off for bad words in my post or are we allowed these types of things?
I had a customer do this a few years ago (He had a USB card reader plugged in during the install which pushed all his drive letters back). Like mentioned earlier, the Microsoft recommended solution is to reinstall Windows. There's just too many things needed to be changed in the registry for any other solution to be worthwhile. At the time, I just shared out their windows drive, and mapped C: to it as a network drive. It doesn't change anything but give them a familiar drive letter for their stuff. You'll still have doubled drive letters for the same partition, though. May as well just bit the bullet and reinstall. One more thing to note.. optical drives will never preempt drive lettering during the windows install, but other removable media (i.e USB media of any kind -- flash drives, card readers, external HDDs) will.
I don't want to re-install the apps and games again , so i'll leave it there. Thanks all for your help
