Re: change system boot drive letter E to C ?

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"skyking" <abc@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> i installed xp pro on a fresh drive that was written with zeros. the
> system had a zip drive and a cdwriter drive as well. after installing the
> O.S.
> zip drive was C:
> the cdwriter was D:
> the hard disk was E:
> when trying to install certain programs i get error messages cause there
is
> no C: drive because there is no disk and i really do not use it. i
realize
> that i should have unplugged the zip now, but is there a way to change
> system/boot drive E: to C: without reloading ?
>
>

If you installed Windows on drive E: then this is where it must stay.

You may be able to fool those programs that demand the
existence of drive C:, by placing a two-line batch file into
the "All Users" startup folder:

@echo off
subst c: E:\

This will create an artificial drive C:, which is actually your drive E:.


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