Guest someone Posted December 6, 2007 Posted December 6, 2007 fThe drive letter on my disk got changed to D:. Windows 2000 will still boot and logon OK, however nothing will run properly. I know you can't change the system volume letter normally, but I can't get into the utility to change drive letters anyway. How can I change the drive letter back to C:?
Guest philo Posted December 6, 2007 Posted December 6, 2007 Re: Changing drive letter back to C: "someone" <this.email@doesnt.exist.com> wrote in message news:5B372C9B-41EF-480E-A2EB-53E244A917E9@microsoft.com... > fThe drive letter on my disk got changed to D:. Windows 2000 will still boot > and logon OK, however nothing will run properly. I know you can't change the > system volume letter normally, but I can't get into the utility to change > drive letters anyway. > How can I change the drive letter back to C:? Explain *exactly* how you managed to change it to D:
Guest John John Posted December 6, 2007 Posted December 6, 2007 Re: Changing drive letter back to C: How to restore the system/boot drive letter in Windows http://support.microsoft.com/kb/223188 John someone wrote: > fThe drive letter on my disk got changed to D:. Windows 2000 will still boot > and logon OK, however nothing will run properly. I know you can't change the > system volume letter normally, but I can't get into the utility to change > drive letters anyway. > How can I change the drive letter back to C:?
Guest 3c273 Posted December 6, 2007 Posted December 6, 2007 Re: Changing drive letter back to C: "philo" <philo@privacy.net> wrote in message news:uJwLOy6NIHA.748@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... > > "someone" <this.email@doesnt.exist.com> wrote in message > news:5B372C9B-41EF-480E-A2EB-53E244A917E9@microsoft.com... > > fThe drive letter on my disk got changed to D:. Windows 2000 will still > boot > > and logon OK, however nothing will run properly. I know you can't change > the > > system volume letter normally, but I can't get into the utility to change > > drive letters anyway. > > How can I change the drive letter back to C:? > > > Explain *exactly* how you managed to change it to D: > I'm not the OP but I recently had this happen when the disk migration program that came with a new hard drive crashed half way through the process. Apparently the program changed the system drive letter to allow the new drive to be the c drive. I didn't even know this was possible at the time. Freaked me out until I found this: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/223188 Louis
Guest philo Posted December 7, 2007 Posted December 7, 2007 Re: Changing drive letter back to C: :? > > > > > > Explain *exactly* how you managed to change it to D: > > > I'm not the OP but I recently had this happen when the disk migration > program that came with a new hard drive crashed half way through the > process. Apparently the program changed the system drive letter to allow the > new drive to be the c drive. I didn't even know this was possible at the > time. Freaked me out until I found this: > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/223188 > > Louis > > I once did a disk clone but did not remove the original drive when I rebooted... then, when I did remove the original drive... the cloned system worked perfectly ...however it had a drive letter other than C:
Guest someone Posted December 7, 2007 Posted December 7, 2007 Re: Changing drive letter back to C: OK, well long story short - I was trying to make a backup of my hard drive cause I knew it was going to fail (it would periodically stop spinning). I managed to copy nearly every file onto it, but then I had to start Windows 2000 on the backup drive to grab some extra files, but noticed the backup drive was D: and the original was C:. Stupidly enough, I changed C: to F: and then tried to change D: to C:. Of course, it didn't work and I restarted so I ended up with two hard drives, neither of them C: and neither able to change it back. But following those steps, I was able to change them both back to C: and now both are working fine. Thank you very much.
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