Re: Clean Install of Windows XP --drive letters switched!

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Hi Paige,

First, regardless of anything else, you cannot change the drive letter assigned to the partition/volume housing the windows installation.

I did the install, things seem to be working, except ... now the C: drive and D: drive are reversed. The system thinks Windows is installed on the 80-gig D: drive now.

Now, was it installed to the 160GB D: drive, or to a new folder on the 80GB C: drive? Where did you want it to install?

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
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Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"Paige Miller" <pmiller5NOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:o6YTg.1027$0L1.483@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I had to do a clean install of my Windows XP operating system.

Previously, my Windows installation was on my 80-gig C: drive. I also had a 160 gig D: drive.

I did the install, things seem to be working, except ... now the C: drive and D: drive are reversed. The system thinks Windows is installed on the 80-gig D: drive now.

Can I change the drive letters without screwing things up? If so, how?


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Paige Miller
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