[SOLVED] Changing Hard Drive Letter Designation ???

**geno368** · 06-26-2008, 07:51 AM

I have just replaced a SATA hard drive that crashed. I booted with the original XP Pro cd and installed . Somehow, the setup named the hd with letter "I" I want to change it back to C. I don't remember it ever asking me what letter to use. Is there a way to change it without reloading XP? I went to disk management, but it wouldn't let me change it because it is the boot drive. Thanks

**Deleted090308** · 06-26-2008, 10:35 AM

Hi

There must have been 6 other drives/partitions connected (not counting CD/DVD/floppy) when you installed XP.
It's not a good idea to change the OS drive letter - shortcuts, registry entries etc may/will point in the wrong direction.

Please post a screenshot of Disk management to give us an idea of what drives C-H are.

How to post a screenshot.

06-26-2008, 07:51 AM	#1 (permalink)
geno368 I helped the forums. Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 74 OS: xp sp2	[SOLVED] Changing Hard Drive Letter Designation ??? I have just replaced a SATA hard drive that crashed. I booted with the original XP Pro cd and installed . Somehow, the setup named the hd with letter "I" I want to change it back to C. I don't remember it ever asking me what letter to use. Is there a way to change it without reloading XP? I went to disk management, but it wouldn't let me change it because it is the boot drive. Thanks

06-26-2008, 10:35 AM	#2 (permalink)
Deleted090308 Not... Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 22,282 OS: Xp	Re: Changing Hard Drive Letter Designation ??? Hi There must have been 6 other drives/partitions connected (not counting CD/DVD/floppy) when you installed XP. It's not a good idea to change the OS drive letter - shortcuts, registry entries etc may/will point in the wrong direction. Please post a screenshot of Disk management to give us an idea of what drives C-H are. How to post a screenshot.