Solved Drive Letter Problem

[SirDarknight]

My system drive's(where the OS is installed) letter is "H".I want to change it to "C". So I opened the "Disk Management" and tried to change it to "C". But in the list, there wasn't "C". So I opened "My Computer" and found the "CD Drive's" letter is "C". I opened Disk Management again and wanted to change CD Drive's letter to anything. But there was "DVD Drive" instead of "CD Drive".

Can you give me any solution?

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[alphanumeric]

You can't change the drive letter of the drive/partition that Windows is installed too. Windows won't let you do it. That drive letter is referenced by a lot of programs when they are installed and changing it would cause a lot of programs to not function correctly.

 

[seavixen32]

I'm intrigued as to how your optical drive was allocated drive letter C and the Windows drive was allocated drive letter H in the first place as Windows would look for and install to your C drive.

Did you, or do you still have a multi-boot setup?

 

[SirDarknight]

5-6 months ago, my OS crashed. Without letting me know the OS changed the System drive to "H". During the re-installation I found the System drive to "H".

 

[wanchoo]

I think you can change the drive letter of your System Volume (H) Drive to C Drive by doing it with a third party boot dick like Acronis Disk Director or Partition Wizard.

All that you need to do is to release C by first changing the CD Drive letter from C to say E. After that you can change the drive letter of H to C. But you must make sure that it continues to remain active and boot drive as it is now.

Hope that this would help.

 

[DeaconFrost]

I wouldn't bother messing with it until your next clean install. The system will run just fine as is, but changing it, even with 3rd party apps, can open the door to a world of trouble.

 

[Petey7]

I'm with Deacon on his one. Changing the drive letter will probably cause A LOT of issues. Your shortcuts definately won't work, assuming your programs work at all. I wouldn't be surprised if Windows refused to boot up, to be honest.

 

[SirDarknight]

Thank you, thanks for wasting your valuable time for a silly man like me

 

[Gudea]

Drive letter problem

Hi,
I believe I have a related problem with my Windows 7. It started suddenly in the past week as I have been unable to load any new programs. I continually get a message that the Windows Installer service could not be accessed...something like that. Nothing worked in terms of fixing this.

I have two drives on the computer. Drive C is the system drive, and E is the backup. Just now I noticed that in "My Computer" Drive E is all of a sudden listed as the system drive and C just hangs around (I suppose) waiting to be 'cloned to' (which is the purpose of E in the first place).

Is there any way that I can change this back to the original arrangement. It's probably a fairly simple process, but I'm at a loss. And, I am thinking that the Installer problem is probably related to this sudden switch. I have no clue what I must have done to facilitate the change, but I'm not having any success finding a similar problem in the messages I'm reading.

Any help out there?
Gudea

 

[seavixen32]

It's not good practice to hijack another thread, even more so one that's been resolved, as you're unlikely to get much of a response.

Please start a new thread and include your full system specs along with a screenshot of your fully-expanded disk management layout so that we can give you the best help.

 

[Gudea]

sorry

Oops...will try again. 'Hijack' makes me feel like I've committed some cardinal sin. Thanks for the reply...I will open a new topic and make another attempt.

 

[seavixen32]

OK, we'll do our best to help.

Sorry about the terminology, but it just happens to be the word that best describes what's going on. It's more forum etiquette rather than a cardinal sin.