Re: Lone HD is H:?

"Pegasus [MVP]" <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Sorry, you can't change the system drive letter.

You CAN change the system drive letter by modifying the registry.
Unfortunately, you then have to do a ton of work to the registry
afterwards because a lot of programs (including default Windows programs)
put their paths into the registry using drive letters.

So in many cases a re-install might be a better idea, but it is NOT
impossible to change the system drive letter.


Have you ever seen someone do this successfully?

Besides me? No, but then I haven't gone out of my way to ask, either.

Just for fun I counted all the references to drive C: in my own registry
and found nearly 20,000 of them - and that's ignoring the ones in hex
strings and the ones contained in various disk files.

It's not that difficult if you do it immediately after an install. In fact,
that's the ONLY time I've ever done so, specifically when I wanted Windows
to be on a drive letter that was not available to me during installation.
And with the aid of search & replace in a text editor it goes pretty quick.

Again, I've only done this when I needed to do something that couldn't be
done via a normal install.

Re-installing Windows is not a "better idea", as you call it - it's the
only effective method. Everything else is a huge waste of time and will
probably fail anyway.

"Is a bad idea" and "can't be done" are two different things.


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