Is it possible to change a drive letter of the system?

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• Change the drive letter of the system drive on Windows XP SP2

  Hello.

  There is a certain task I want to accomplish, but I can't figure out how. Here's the situation:

  I have 2 hard drives, each separated into 2 partitions. 1 disk partitions have the letters C: and G: assigned on them.

  The drive 2 partitions receive letters D: and J: . I have two installations of Windows XP, one on disk 1 (C: partition) and the other on disk 2 (D: partition).

  What I want to do is change the letter of the D: partition ( E: letter, even if it doesn't really) . As you probably know, Windows does not allow me to do that because D: is a system partition / boot. So, I was wondering if there is another way to achieve this, without risking damage to the system.
  

  I would be grateful for any help.

  You can correct me if I'm wrong, but I suspect it came because you installed to C on disk 1, and then, without disconnecting the drive 1, installed to D on disc 2.

  If you had unplugged disc 1 before installing the second XP on disc 2, the Windows partition on drive 2 would also named drive C. A clean re-installation of Windows on the drive with the drive disconnected 1 2 is the only way to remedy this I know.

  When you reconnect the disk 1, it will assign other letters for the partitions on disk 2 and vice versa. Having established the two XPs, I would recommend that you delete the drive letters for the other XP system using disk management.

  How do you dual-boot at the moment? By changing the BIOS hard drive boot order? Or by the manipulation of boot.ini file? EasyBCD should help with the latter, you can download the commercial version free from here...

  http://NeoSmart.NET/EasyBCD/

  Tricky

  EDIT: Why are you still on SP2? Follow my instructions here...

  http://answers.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows/Forum/windows_xp-windows_update/Windows-XP-Service-Pack-3/26437969-e063-4605-9df7-f2dbf660993b

  .. .to get to SP3. Recommended to restore Internet Explorer all the way back to IE6 before installing SP3. BTW this site does not work with IE6, print everything before returning.

• Change the drive letter of the system drive after clone

  Hi, I just cloned my old C: and D: again 1 TB at the old 320 GB HARD drive. I need to replace the letter C: System K: (for example) and then change this cloned back to C:. Even with the D: but it is a swap file, so I can´t change the letters C: and D:. Can anyone help?

  Sorry for my bad English.

  You start with the old drive still attached after the cloning, i.e. the two drives connected?  The good practice to disconnect the old drive before starting in the cloned system.  If you still have both drives connected, unplug the old one and try to start the new. What letter do you get?

• How can I change the drive letter of the system drive?

  I need to install a device driver (setup.exe), but it wants to install on drive C, my system drive is H.

  Seems that the installation of the driver routine has been hardcoded to install on drive C:.  Contact the driver manufacturer for assistance.

• Can I change the drive letter of the recovery partition?

  HP P7-1235, Win7 64 bit running. 1 TB HARD DRIVE

  I usually partition my hard drive, so that my data is separate from the operating system and applications.  the operating system is the C: partition, and my data is generally D:.  The problem is: "D:" is used by the recovery partition.

  I can change his letter to something else, and recovery still works?

  Hello

  Well, everything has been said on this subject and its okay.

  It's better to not touch the D: partition, set another letter to your other partiion, if you change the recovery partition, you won't be able to use it.

  But you can also do a thing, you can go ahead and create your copy of the recovery disks, just enter some DVD, create your copy of the recovery Image, then you can change the drive letter of the partition Recovery to E: or even delete that.

  A copy of records RRS, you can always use them to again state of the plant, and that will reformat all your partitions, create the recovery disks and do what you want and prefer with you D: partiion.

  Thank you

• Change the drive letter for the recovery partition

  The recovery partition is, by default, the value to D: which means that if I create a data partition, it is automatically in letters f: while this is not unacceptable, it is inconvenient.  I would like to change the drive letter of the partition data on D: and set the recovery as f partition: if I do this, it will automatically disable the ability to recover?  I am running Windows 7 Professional, which is an originally installed Windows 7 Home Premium upgrade.

  Hello Richard9, if you change the Recovery D: HP restore partition to another letter, the recovery procedure would not work if you ever need.

  If you have files HP Recovery discs, you could delete this partition and recover the capacity of hard drive D: and use the set of diskettes to restore HP recovery to reintall the original software and the partitions of the hard drive, all as they were when shipped from HP.

• Change the drive letter of the Partition Recovery

  After previous bad experiences in trying to separate the data files program, I took the habit on my previous computer under Windows to create another partition on my hard drive to store the data files. Out of habit I still do on my desktop PC with Windows XP (great program) rather than use the My Documents folder.

  I want to do the same thing on my new DV6-3142, I use to work and create a separate partition for my data files. I understand how to create a new partition on the HDD and reassign the drive letters for the existing partitions, but I want to use the letter D for her. However, it is the letter of the drive that is used for the recovery partition.

  Can I change the drive letter of the recovery partition to, say R without affecting the operation of the recovery process, or should I leave as D for the recovery of the system to work properly that I should never need her?

  Hello:

  You leave the name of the recovery partition and drive letter unchanged and your C drive: of the same name.

  If you change these, when you press the F11 key to start the recovery process, the program know what to do.

  I am a firm believer of it also have a set of factory recovery disks. For me, it is worth less than the investment of $20.  If your HARD drive fails after the warranty period, (or if you want to upgrade your HARD drive), your recovery partition doesn't help anyway.

  Contact HP customer support to see if they have a game for your laptop:

  http://support.HP.com/us-en/document/c00810334

  Paul

• cannot change the drive letter of the external hard drive in XP

  I bought an Iomega 1 TB external hard drive and I can not change the drive letter.  I have a click right on my computer and select manage.  When I click on disk management, it does not recognize the outside.  The weird part is that it appears in my computer and I can access the drive without problem.  I disconnected the drive of my XP machine and connected to my Vista laptop and I was able to access it through the management of the disks without problem.  Iomega support claims that it is most likely a problem with my XP machine.  Any ideas how to solve this problem?

  Hello rolandboy,

  Thank you for visiting the Microsoft answers community.

  Try to use diskpart to complete the task.

  -Click Start > run > type diskpart and press enter
  -At the prompt, type list volume , press enter
  -At the prompt, type select volume 1 (where 1 is the number of the volume is the volume that you need to change the drive letter)
    -At the prompt, type assign letter = A (where A is the letter you want to assign your volume)

  Close your CMD, and you should be finished.

  Hope this helps Chris.H
  Microsoft Answers Support Engineer
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• You need to set the drive letter to the USB Ports front before any device has been inserted - that won't change when the device is connected. I have Windows XP Professional with Visual Studio 6 installed

  You need to set the drive letter to the USB Ports front before any device has been inserted - that won't change when the device is connected. I have Windows XP Professional with Visual Studio 6 installed. Thanks for your help

  diana73,

  First of all, make sure that you're connected Administrators account to do.

  How to change a drive letter to change an existing drive letter on a drive, on a partition, or a volume, follow these steps:

  1. Sign in as an administrator or as a member of the Administrators group.
  2. Click Start , click run and type compmgmt.msc .
  3. In the left pane, and then click disk management .
  4. Right click on the drive, the partition, the logical drive or volume that you want to assign a drive letter to and then click change drive letter and paths .
  5. Click change .
  6. Click assign the following drive letter if it is not already selected, click the drive letter that you want to use, and then click OK .
  7. Click Yes when you are prompted to confirm the drive letter change.

  The letter of the drive, partition, or volume that you specified is changed, and the new drive letter is displayed in the appropriate drive, partition, or volume in the disk management tool.

  Good luck! Please rate me upward if you find my post helpful. Thank you!

• How can I change the drive letter of the second disc of C: to another letter?

  original title: I add an opportunity second hard drive labeled C:. How can I change the drive letter of the second disc of C: to another letter?

  I'm runnibg Vista service pack 1 on a Compaq Presario with a labeled hard drive C:.

  No you haven't, how it was labeled in the old pc is irrelevant, just install you it as slave on your PC drive, depends on the question of if you need to change the jumper on the drive. Some PC manufacturers require the rider to be set as "cable select" others as "slave" (unless of course, it's a sata drive that requires no jumpers)

  Once it is set, when you start your PC, it will be assingned a drive letter

• The drive letter for the files on my external drive does not match the designated letter MyWindowsApp, after briefly changing pots

  On my Windows 7 laptop, I briefly moved an external hard drive to a USB port to another and then back.

  The reader is referred to as F, as it was originally, but since the temporary move the path for some files now show that E.

  I went to disk management and confirmed that the drive is detected as F.

  This disrupts programs such as Adobe Premiere Elements. It always hurts new information loaded in the disc I load that is in F, but the said path E. The file is clearly on record.

  Hello

  I see that, after changing the port, the drive letter for the external drive has changed. I'll help you with this problem.

  1. What is the brand and model of the computer?

  2. what security software is installed on the computer?

  You can follow these steps to assign a letter to the external drive and check if that helps.

  1 - click on 'Start' button.

  2-right-click on "Computer" in the list that appears.

  Option 3 - Select the 'manage '. If a warning appears asking for your permission to continue, click on the OK"" button.

  4 - Choose "Disk management" in the left column of the computer management window. Find the USB in the list that appears in the gray bottom of the center column.

  5-click right on the part of the screen that represents the USB key, and then click the option "letter of change of road and railways.

  6 button - click on the 'change' in the window that opens.

  7. ensure that the radio button to "assign the following drive letter:" is selected. To the right of the present is a drop-down list with the drive letters currently not assigned to all of the drives on your local system. If you are not on a network, choose the drive letter you want for your USB key and then click on the OK"" button.

  8 - click on the 'yes' button in the confirmation box that appears.

  Refer.

  Change, add, or remove a drive letter: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Change-add-or-remove-a-drive-letter

  I hope this helps.

• How to make a portable USB drive use the same drive letter all the time

  Original title:

  I have many removable hard drives from Toshiba.  Use them for photography.  I usually connect simply, transfer photos from the DSLR camera (images raw, very big, not a camera point/rod).  When I plug in, computer automatically selects a player... F, g, H: by M or N.

  Then, I use Adobe Lightroom for adjustments.  Once they are imported into Lightroom it keeps track of this record, they were on.

  PROBLEM:

  If I unplug the removable hard drive, plug in at a later date, computer can randomly choose a different example M instead of H letter.
  LightRoom is so impossible to find photos/images.  I would then have to re - import and start any setting completely from the beginning.

  Question:
  How to direct the computer to select the same drive when I plug in a removable hard drive.

  Plug in a hard drive removable, computer selects H:, can I import into LightRoom, I disconnect the removable hard drive, a week later I want to make adjustments more photography, connect the removable hard drive and FORCE/DIRECT COMPUTER TO SELECT H: AGAIN (or whatever of the original letter was).

  Hope it makes sense.

  Jim

  Hello

  There is a way to assign a static drive on an external USB drive letter, so you always get the same drive letter for the drive.

  Click on the following link and follow the steps to change a drive letter.

  Change, add, or remove a drive letter

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows-Vista/change-add-or-remove-a-drive-letter

  I hope this helps.

• How can I correct the wrong drive letter in the Collections only - no files?

  I moved my Lightroom Catalog from another computer. All my files are correct, but my Collections records point to a drive letter does not exist, and I get the error that there are duplicates.

  How can I fix the drive letter in the Collections only? Find all missing Photos does not work because it applies only to folders and files have the correct drive letter.

  Charles

  I think the best thing to do is to copy the old catalog of the any file to the new computer and place it in its own nine empty folder. Then change in Windows, the drive letters E on the new computer becomes G (as it was on the old computer). Then double-click the Lightroom from the old computer catalog to open it, and everything should be good.

• UNABLE to get the drive letter of the disk 0 Partition 1

  Hello world.

  Well, yesterday I tried to install Ubuntu netbook edition 10.10. Well, in the middle of something was wrong and it corrupted the Windows partition. Linux is installed, but Windows is damaged.
  I'm on a Gateway laptop, and I have a recovery disk. The thing is when I try to boot from the disc, it says Windows is loading files... and then it opens with an error message saying fail to get the drive letter of the Partition 1 of disk 0. When I turn on the computer, I present a selection of software Ubuntu and Windows Vista loader option. If I choose that, it would open a window of system repair and th other options. I passed by them and tried to recover my pc from the recovery disc. However, none of them worked. I chose the option to Scan drive for errors, and you are prompted to restart my pc. I did, but now, if I select the Windows Vista loader it comes with a long error message.
  In the Linux file browser, C:\ is now called PQSERVICE, but he's not normal Windows OS files.
  The thing I would ask is; How I completely erase my hard drive, reset the partitions and reinstall windows from my recovery disc? I have no special programs or documents that I need to backup, I all recorded them on a portable hard drive. Also, I can reinstall Linux (rightly) with no dramas.
  PS. I have a drive to upgrade Vista to Windows 7. I have not yet tried, but if I inserted that and tried to boot my computer from that, would that work?
  Thanks for your time.

  Hello

  1. can you give us the long error message?

  The recovery disc can be used to restore the computer to factory settings and I suggest you best computer manufacturer contact to get help for the same.

  Also, we cannot use a Windows 7 upgrade disk to perform a clean installation.

  Method 1: I suggest to check the following link and check if it helps:

  Information on the recovery of the system:

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows-Vista/what-are-the-system-recovery-options-in-Windows-Vista

  Method 2: Try the following steps to upgrade from Windows Vista to Windows 7 from the link below:

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows7/help/upgrading-from-Windows-Vista-to-Windows-7

  Hope this information is useful.

• Reassign the drive letter to the partition (D :) HP_Recovery?

  I just bought a desktop computer Pavilion (h8 - 1080t) and partitioned the hard drive to add two new partitions. I would use the drive letter D: for one of my new partitions. Can I safely reassign the drive letter of the the HP_Recovery (D partition or will that cause a problem in the future I should never need to recover the original computer configuration?)

  Hello:

  Probably not.  I believe that the recovery program looking for C and D, and if you rename D (your restore partition), you may be out of luck.

  You did a recovery of the DVD set?  See how on the link below.

  http://support.HP.com/us-en/document/c01867124

  If you do a recovery of the DVD set, then I suppose you are free to rename or even delete the partition of recovery if you so inclined, you will have the DVD to restore from.

  Paul