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#1

I resized one of my partitions to make room for XP Pro SP2. When I installed Windows, it gave my partition the letter F: instead of C:. My DVD writer is drive D: like is should be, any ideas?

#2

you can usually change the drive letter through 'disk management' in 'computer management' via 'admin tools' in the control panel. bear in mind any programmes you installed to F: won't work thereafter if you change the drive to C:

#3

Disk Manager won't change the boot drive, but I know what your talking about. I thought I could fill in the missing letters by mounting my ext3 partitions using e2ifs, but it wont mount them cause I have 256 bit clusters instead of 128. Prolly something about me running Ubuntu 64.

#4

Can you use Partition Magic or some other partition software to set the Windows partition as primary?

#5

scratman said: Can you use Partition Magic or some other partition software to set the Windows partition as primary?

the boot files look for Windows on drive f:

#6

haven't tried this before, but it's from ms, so hopefully should work! http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q223188

#7

smoker said: haven't tried this before, but it's from ms, so hopefully should work!

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q223188

"Warning Do not use the procedure that is described in this article to change a drive on a computer where the drive letter has not changed. If you do so, you may not be able to start your operating system."

I'm not sure I wanna try that my NTDLR and boot.ini will still point to F:

#8

You may be "up the creek" a ways - that usually happens when the install finds something it assigns to C then puts your stuff in F - the downside of that (from the couple of times I have run into it) is that all your startup links, registry keys etc are now pointing at "F:" and it is a real pain to change it.

mikey

#9

gpsmikey said: You may be "up the creek" a ways - that usually happens when the install finds something it assigns to C then puts your stuff in F - the downside of that (from the couple of times I have run into it) is that all your startup links, registry keys etc are now pointing at "F:" and it is a real pain to change it.

mikey

I pretty much knew that, I just thought someone might have an idea.