Re: Drive.



Hi,

Um, no you can't just rename it C:, not unless it was C: originally and got changed by some foul up. The only way to safely change the system or boot drive letters is by a clean installation. The bootloader will not be the only problem if you do, there are tens of thousands of pointers in the system registry and other files that would be affected.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
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"david manvell" <davidmanvell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:11FD47B4-2EFA-47F4-AE2F-D88E3B771A02@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
The hard drive Vista is on is drive J: It was assigned that letter as I
originally had multiple operating systems on this computer. Those other
operating systems are now gone leaving me with just Vista. I know I can
reassign the drive letter back to C: again but will it have any adverse
affects?

Any problems with the boot loader if I do?

.



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