How to change system/boot drive letter

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From: Tim Oliwiak (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 04/07/04 

Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 19:05:52 -0700

I have a system that has the system/boot drive labelled
as "I:". I assume it is because when XP was installed,
there was an internal USB device that had 4 memory card
slots in it, with one drive letter assigned to each, plus
2 CD ROM drives; all of which were being detected before
the hard drive during boot up. Even with the internal
USB device uninstalled, the system/boot drive is still
labelled as "I:", and obviously Disk Manager will not
allow you to change it. Is there any way that it can be
changed without reinstalling?

Thanks.

Tim Oliwiak

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