Change C Drive Letter

[karldenton]

Hi,

We have just bought some new machines. They come with a System drive ©, and a local disk (E).

 

Windows is installed on the E drive and all the programs install onto there too.

 

Is the simple solution to changed the System drive to something else and change the local disk to C or is it not that simple ?

 

Thanks

[karldenton]

PS. There is nothing on C:

[FN-GM]

try this

 

Change System Drive Letter in Windows XP

[srochford]

Take real care if you try this - "For the most part, this is not recommended" are the first words in that article and they make sense. I've played with this before and ended up with a dead machine.

 

Can you not just reinstall them - it will be much, much safer!

[FN-GM]

Can you not just reinstall them - it will be much, much safer!

 

And probably quicker.

[Guest TheLibrarian]

try this

 

Change System Drive Letter in Windows XP

 

Even when this has worked for me the machine has been erratic to say the least.

 

Things like control panel applets would fail / hang.

 

Go for re-install / imaging.

[K.C.Leblanc]

I seem to manage to end up with a system drive that isn't C every time I rebuild my home PC. I theory it's fine. But there's always something that won't work.

 

Bin it and start again, trying to get by with the wrong drive letter tends to end up a little less messy then changing it to C.