hello, i have just put in a new hard drive to my dads computer as his old one was full but he wanted to keep all the information on it any just start a fresh. i have installed xp and it has set the hard drive to drive letter I: and set the card reader as C: as it is the primary drive it cannot be changed in the disk manager. how can i change it to C: as it is causing massive problems will all the drivers i am trying to install. As there is nothing on the pc i can reinstall if that will change it back to C: cheers
With windows xp there are always 2 drive letters per partition/drive. The "mounted devices" which is what you see in "my computer" and the "partition ID" which is a drive letter you don't see but windows assigns to every partition/drive. You can try and delete all the "mounted devices" in the registry and try a reboot. During bootup it will zero out the drive letters and the OS will usually end up with c: drive. If you succeed in getting the mounted device to change back to c: but the computer won't boot, you will need to get the free "paragon rescue kit 9.0" it has a boot corrector that can change the "partition ID", the partition ID and mounted devices both have to match in order to boot properly. Example mounted device = c, partition ID = c. http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=210322 If you decide to reinstall windows, unplug the "card reader" so it doesn't end up getting a drive letter. After windows is installed, you can plug it back in.
