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Thread ID: 35367 2003-07-10 05:16:00 WindowsXP Pro drive letter change BuzzEbee (4187) Press F1
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158661 2003-07-10 05:16:00 I have a fresh install of XP Pro SP1 and my root drive is F:

How can I change this without a major drama, like hacking the registry?

I have a P4 1.6
Gigabyte GA8igx
512MB
60GB maxtor
GF2 Ti 64MB
BuzzEbee (4187)
158662 2003-07-10 05:28:00 How many partitions do you have ? KiwiTT (4082)
158663 2003-07-10 06:03:00 Using Disk Management
Disk Management is a graphical tool for managing disks and volumes. It supports partitions, logical drives, new dynamic volumes, and remote disk management.

Open Disk Management.

Notes

You must be logged on as an administrator or a member of the Administrators group in order to complete this procedure. If your computer is connected to a network, network policy settings may also prevent you from completing this procedure.
To open Disk Management, click Start, point to Settings, click Control Panel, double-click Administrative Tools, and then double-click Computer Management. In the console tree under Storage, click Disk Management.
For information about using Disk Management, click the Action menu and then click Help.
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I think this is the same in WindowsXP, try this, if it dont work then im not sure what will?

Cheers

Veale
Veale (536)
158664 2003-07-10 09:58:00 Disk management won't change the root drive, (I'm assuming the drive windows is installed on?)

I updated the FAQ on this a few days ago, check out faq34b (pressf1.pcworld.co.nz).
PoWa (203)
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