Drive Letters

[marden]

I know how to change the driver letters, but I don't understand this one.

I was helping someone to format their pc yesterday. They wanted to have 3 partitions C D and E. No problem, done this many times before. However, when you boot up, it goes into windows no problem. When you look in windows explorer, there's D E and G. The CD drive is K and the DVD drive is L.

G is the main drive with windows installed on it. When I go to change the drive letter, I can't change it to C. Is there a way of changing this or am I looking at another format??

[Commander]

I connect only my main hard drive and install Windows on it so that I'm sure it is the C: drive. Then, I add my additional hard drives/disk drives and change their letters as I need. I'm not sure if you can change the primary boot disk to another letter once Windows is on it.

[marden]

This is only on one hard drive and it's been partitioned.

I found my answer so you can delete or lock this thread.

Thanks.

[thrash_head]

Post your answer so others can search in the future?

[marden]

Format in the works. You can't change the drive letter of the drive that the operating system is on.

[thrash_head]

cool thanks :D

[Karnage]

Format in the works. You can't change the drive letter of the drive that the operating system is on.
this is true, but for other drives, you can go to disk management and change the letter. as a side note, if you set up a network drive, use the lower letters (x,y,z and so on) otherwise you might get drive letter conflicts when you use a flash or other external drives. xp will assign the network drive letter to your flash drive and will keep displaying the network drive until you disconnect it or assign it another letter in disk management.