Hey Guys,

Just reinstalled windows after installing my new motherboard, and was wodering if I could change the drive letters without reformatting (ie my windows partition is now named F: or something crazy, and I want it to be c:...)

Any ideas?

Thanks,
jkpq45

If you're using XP, get TweakUI

its easier then that


im me ill walk you though it

or come on up ill show ya that and the vid card

you shuold be able to fix this by changing your bios, but that is limited by your mother board.

Will tweak UI change the boot drive letter?

you might read, Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - 223188

linkified: http://support.microsoft.com/default.as ... us;Q223188

If you're using 2000 or XP:

Right click My Computer, hit "Manage", and click on Disk Management in the left pane (under the Storage header about 2/3's of the way down the pane).

Right click on a partition in the lower right pane and pick "Change drive letters and paths". Hit Edit and pick a new one. Note that if you have a drive that already owns the letter you want to change the current one to, you'll have to change the original one to a temporary letter first.

Example: You have a hard drive D and a CD ROM E. You want to swap the two of them. You'll have to name the CDROM something else (F). Then name the hard drive E, and then name the CDROM D.

and there ya go

ive been to tired to recall what all it was callled

that works great for non-system drives, but thats not what he asked about

So this will work on renaming drive partitions as well as optical/cdrom drives?

Since I want to do both (Change the letters for my opticals and EACH of my separate drive partitions) it would be killer wicked sweet if this all was this easy....

Thanks, keep the replies coming!
-jkpq45

hay disk manager wont change your primary drive, only way to do that is to luck out with one of those drive magic or what ever programs, best way to reletter your primary drive is to just redo it man

there are other ways around it, but it entails luck or regediting the hell outta your computer and hoping it doesnt fuck up

but itll work for all the oither drives np

So, since I don't want to reinstall windows, and delte my "Files" partition, as I have no way to back it up....

How do I change the drive letters associated with my HDD's partitions?

-jkpq45

delete your files partition. no lol just the windows partition, unless files partition is the windows partition

if you need back up i have the solution, bring it over to my room after lunch, got .5 tera, plenty o room

I think I have an idea...

If you'll let me back up my files an' shit (on the 56gb partion), I can go into XP pro setup, delete the partition, restart w/o installing windows, then boot to window, and windows SHOULD be on the C: drive now....

I love microsoft. I'll come to see you after lunch, will (gots me a clas to go to at 11).

-jkpq45

im already at my 11 lol, dam the chem test

do you read at all? zkissane already pointed out how easy it is to change non-system drive letters, and trunks pointed you to a MS article telling how to change the system drive letter. what more do you want?