Help with hard drive lettering

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DarkCyber

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Ok, I just never learn. I started upgrading my office pc on Tuesday and finally got finished last night...mad and ready to smash the #$%#@ pc.

I tried restoring an image backup made with Norton Ghost 9 (but stupid scandisk ran on one boot and fixed some things on my backup hd...right) anyway that corrupted my back up image. I used Norton Ghost to delete my C: partition thinking that might help it restore it.

Anyway, after all that...my C: partition was gone. I used my Windows XP cd and created a new 10 gig partition to replace the old one. When I did, Windows assigned it drive letter F: So, now my primary boot paritition is F: I've tried changing that in Admin Tools in Windows and can't do it.

My question...is there any non-destructive way to change that back to C:?
 
Nope, you can't change the system volume's letter once it's installed. Some people will say it's possible, but they always fail to mention the PC doesn't boot afterwards.
 
Well, crap! I hate my primary drive being labeled as F:

So, there's no way I can delete that partition and re-create it and get it as C:. Doing any kind of backup will backup the letter info as well. Dang MS! :eek:
 
If you delete the partion at the start of Windozes setup and recreate it, it should come back as the C: drive unless one of your other drives is has got the C: letter.
Nowadays if I ever nuke my C: drive I always reboot at that point as it frees the C: letter so it can be reused. Thats whats happened here.
I also tend to unplug all my other drives so Windozes wont put the boot files on the wrong drive.

Luck............ :D
 
I just started for scratch and wipe everything out and only put that hd in and got it back like I wanted it.

Thanks everyone!
 
DarkCyber said:
I just started for scratch and wipe everything out and only put that hd in and got it back like I wanted it.

Thanks everyone!
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With a system like that, it probably didn't take too long. Good call on starting from scratch.
 
slowbiznatch said:
With a system like that, it probably didn't take too long. Good call on starting from scratch.
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Well, actually this system in my signature isn't the one I was working on. It's one of my office pc's and it's an AMD Sempron 3000...but still didn't take that long :)
 
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