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wierd drive letter problem

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ok heres the deal, i have 2 partitions, 1 wiht my backed up stuff the other with the OS
i jsut reformatted the OS and now its named letter D, now someoe my programs are trying to find a certain program but its already pre programmed to look under C; and not D: so i cant fucking use it.

theres probably not a way to change drive letters, but when i reload windows.. what can ido?
 
I've seen this problem before.
If you delete you C: drive and then recreate your partion and format it without rebooting, then because C: was in use Windozes gives the new partion the next free drive letter.
The best fix is to do that again and get your C: drive back even though it means another full install.
Failing that you need to edit the programs/ shortcuts/ registry so all pointers now look to the D: drive not the C:.

Luck........ :D
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Which letter is your other partion.
If its not C: then when you delete the partition which holds your D: and remake it the new partition will be given the lowest free drive letter.
In this case C:
It should tell you what the drive letters are when you make the partition.

Luck.......... :D
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Start > Run > (type) diskmgmt.msc
which partition is listed system?
 
ok before i had reformatted i had a C: (OS) and a D: (just stuff)

then i deletred the C partition, put a new one on, and lo and behold it was D; making my just stuff drive C:

sooo..
 
btw, ice czar, i tried that already, you can change HD letter to boot or system partitions..
 
im planning on reformatting, i was want to be reassured that it will be C next time... what can i do
 
meaning? what are you reformatting? just the first partition or the whole drive?

you still havent answered my question what is listed as the system partition?
 
D: is listed as system parition.. i just want to delete my system partition (d:), reformat it and make it a C: so my stupid software will find the software it needs
 
I just recently had this same problem when recovering from a toasted disk in a raid-0 (that had my OS on it.

When I went to go reinstall on the raid array after tossing in a new drive and rebuilding the array, a different disk was being listed as C despite the fact that I wanted the array to be formatted as C.

Here's the conclusion that I came to after an extremely lucky educated guess based on an old windows 95 problem I had back in the day :)

Windows wants to assume that the system drive is the drive with boot.ini on it, plain and simple. You can happily install XP to a different partition (D or E or whatever) and it will work, but I like my system drive to be C dammit, its been that for a long time.

Go into the recovery console from the cd, and merely delete all of the files on the root dir of the drive that THINKS it is C, after of course unobscuring any invisible files.

After that, try rebooting and restarting the cd install and you should find the drive letters all in some kind of order with no C drive assigned (though it won't necessarily assign any of the others a volume letter).

I got lucky with this one, good luck with it.

-A
 
Octavo said:
Windows wants to assume that the system drive is the drive with boot.ini on it, plain and simple.
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thats pretty much it, only its the ntldr and boot.ini
which in the recovery console are rewritten when you repair the boot sector
MBR Master Boot Record
 
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