changing drive letter from D to C in windows XP

[kool]

hi friends, recently i installed my xp on D drive, now i want to swap this drive with drive C. So how can i change from D to C ??

here i m attaching screen-shots of my disk management. reply soon...

[debsuvra]

Follow these steps,

1. Right click on any Partition name on the display under the Volume tab.
2. Click on "Change Drive Letters and Path".
3. After opening this link, a window will appear with the present Drive letter and options button below to change it.
4. Please select change button and select your needed drive letter.

Done.

[QwertyManiac]

I don't think one can change the letter representation of the root drive, can they?

[kool]

Originally Posted by QwertyManiac

I don't think one can change the letter representation of the root drive, can they?

i'm getting this error messages:
WINDOWS CANNOT MODIFY THE DRIVE LETTER OF SYSTEM VOLUME OR BOOT VOLUME

[NucleusKore]

Above methods are WRONG

Go to Start->Control Panel->Computer Management->Disk Management System

In that, first right click on C and rename it to Z
Then right click on D and rename it to C
Then right click on Z and rename it to D

If it works and windows does not boot, GOD HELP YOU

[DigitalDude]

Originally Posted by debsuvra

Follow these steps,

1. Right click on any Partition name on the display under the Volume tab.
2. Click on "Change Drive Letters and Path".
3. After opening this link, a window will appear with the present Drive letter and options button below to change it.
4. Please select change button and select your needed drive letter.

Done.

DONT DO THIS this can be done only for drives other than the boot partition.. you cant name D as C and vice versa but you can change other logical partitions to IJKLMNOP... etc

you cant change the boot partition.... you can only reinstall windows in the boot partition overwriting your existing OS in the boot partition



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[adi007]

off course you can do it...
i have done it numerous times..
You need partition magic 8 to do this...
But there is no 100% guarantee that it might work...it will sometimes corrupt the windows....so it's risky....
wait i will tell the procedures afterwards when i try it myself in my computer...

[DigitalDude]

^^^I dunno what you mean but you cant make your other logical partition a boot drive by changing the drive letter...



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[debsuvra]

Uh oh! I overlooked the fact that drive D: is root volume. Sorry for this.

[adi007]

Originally Posted by DigitalDude

^^^I dunno what you mean but you cant make your other logical partition a boot drive by changing the drive letter...



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yes we can...
use partition magic...change the drive letter from there....
it will work
for ex:1 have 2 Xp's and one 98...
but i have made changes so that 2 XP's system drive is C: not D: or E:
and i have made the boot partition drive(98 drive) as F:
the most important fact is it's just changing the drive letter not anything else...so there is no change in boot.ini file..

[DigitalDude]

Originally Posted by adi007

yes we can...
use partition magic...change the drive letter from there....
it will work
for ex:1 have 2 Xp's and one 98...
but i have made changes so that 2 XP's system drive is C: not D: or E:
and i have made the boot partition drive(98 drive) as F:
the most important fact is it's just changing the drive letter not anything else...so there is no change in boot.ini file..

yes I understand what you say

but the OP wanted to change his boot drive itself not just the drive letters...

also read my post again.. I meant just because you change a drive letter to C it doesnt become a boot drive.. and thats what OP wants to do which unfortunately cannot be done



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