Guest Paputxi Posted July 11, 2008 Posted July 11, 2008 I just installed WinXP on a drive that contained a partition containing Linux. When I installed WinXP (into it's own partition), it identified the partition as F: not C:. Three questions: 1) Can I reassign the F: to C: without having to reinstall WinXP and all the applications I have installed (which indicates everything is on F: not C:). 2) If I move the WinXP partition to another drive, will it still show as F: or C:? 3) How would I go about changing the drive from F: to C:? Thanks in advance.
Guest Pegasus \(MVP\) Posted July 11, 2008 Posted July 11, 2008 Re: WinXP Install To F: Not C: "Paputxi" <Paputxi@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:8D8120FB-B3A8-4D52-9D47-60E25A8638F5@microsoft.com... >I just installed WinXP on a drive that contained a partition containing > Linux. When I installed WinXP (into it's [its] own partition), it > identified the > partition as F: not C:. Three questions: 1) Can I reassign the F: to C: > without having to reinstall WinXP and all the applications I have > installed > (which indicates everything is on F: not C:). 2) If I move the WinXP > partition to another drive, will it still show as F: or C:? 3) How would > I > go about changing the drive from F: to C:? > > Thanks in advance. Regardless of what you do, you must preserve the drive letter F:. It is fairly easy to change it, perhaps by moving the installation to a different disk, but the result would be disastrous. Don't!
Guest Ken Blake, MVP Posted July 11, 2008 Posted July 11, 2008 Re: WinXP Install To F: Not C: On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 09:41:00 -0700, Paputxi <Paputxi@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > I just installed WinXP on a drive that contained a partition containing > Linux. When I installed WinXP (into it's own partition), it identified the > partition as F: not C:. Three questions: 1) Can I reassign the F: to C: > without having to reinstall WinXP and all the applications I have installed > (which indicates everything is on F: not C:). No. Leave it alone. Although it's unusual, there's really no disadvantage to having it on F:. I happen to have Windows installed on F: myself. It's been that way for years and I have no problems with it. 2) If I move the WinXP > partition to another drive, will it still show as F: or C:? 3) How would I > go about changing the drive from F: to C:? > > Thanks in advance. -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience Please Reply to the Newsgroup
Guest Patrick Keenan Posted July 11, 2008 Posted July 11, 2008 Re: WinXP Install To F: Not C: "Paputxi" <Paputxi@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:8D8120FB-B3A8-4D52-9D47-60E25A8638F5@microsoft.com... >I just installed WinXP on a drive that contained a partition containing > Linux. When I installed WinXP (into it's own partition), it identified > the > partition as F: not C:. Three questions: 1) Can I reassign the F: to C: > without having to reinstall WinXP and all the applications I have > installed > (which indicates everything is on F: not C:). 2) If I move the WinXP > partition to another drive, will it still show as F: or C:? 3) How would > I > go about changing the drive from F: to C:? > > Thanks in advance. There is no practical way to change this without doing a clean install, which means in your case also removing the Linux partition. The downside of leaving it as it is is that you have to remember that the root is F, not C. It's possible that you might run into an older, badly-written app that wants to see C: as the root, but those are thankfully few. HTH -pk
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