I just reloaded my OS and of course the drive letters aren't correct. Since I just added in a new SATA drive it made the one IDE drive I have the C drive but I installed the OS on my SATA drive. The OS is installed on D drive. Right now the C Drive is marked as the system drive and the D drive is marked as the boot drive. Does anyone know how I can make the D drive become C drive without messing up the OS install or having to redo the installation? Basically I want the system and boot to all be on the C drive.
You can use the disk management tool with XP Pro to change the letters: Right click My Computer>Manage>Disk Management Right click the drive you want to change and click "change drive letter".
Welcome to Harwdareforums! Could you re-explain the problem? I am slightly confused! (Its getting late here in the UK, i could just be overly tired!) @Addis i dont think devxtech is trying to swap the letters windows has assigned the drives ("Basically I want the system and boot to all be on the C drive.")
Well I got the problem fixed but here is the new problem. I currently have 5 hard drives. 4 internal 1 external. 4 of these are SATA and one is IDE. When installing Windows XP it looks like it requires me to make a small partition on the IDE drive for it to put it's install files on. Well originally it gave that small partition the drive letter C and wouldn't let me change it from C drive to something else as it was marked as a system partition. Well not I got it to be called H drive by reloading the OS. Does anyone know why XP pro requires the IDE drive for it's install files?
