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| Thread ID: 82610 | 2007-09-02 06:58:00 | Boot, system Hard Drives? | aonghas (12649) | Press F1 |
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| 587065 | 2007-09-02 06:58:00 | Hi guys, I have Vista Ultimate installed and I want to change my drive letters. At the moment I have C: as my boot drive and that's okay, but my D: drive is another hard drive and it's a system drive. I want my DVD/RW drive to be D: and I want to change my D: to another letter. However, when I try to change the drive in Disk Management, I get the message "Windows cannot modify the drive letter of your volume. This may happen if your volume is a system or boot volume, or has page files." Does anyone know how I can change this drive letter? I don't understand why it is a system drive because I don't think there is anything that the system uses to run. Cheers aonghas |
aonghas (12649) | ||
| 587066 | 2007-09-02 10:15:00 | Found This (pcsupport.about.com) But I think its what you are doing now any way ? Also This (www.tech-recipes.com) Interesting about the CD drive change letter in this one I'm guessing, but you may also have to turn off UAC ? |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 587067 | 2007-09-03 03:01:00 | I've changed all my drive letters using Disk Management. I'm the only user so I presume that wainuitech's on the right track. Do you have Admin rights? If all else fails here is some info on disabling UAC - temporarily of course :) www.petri.co.il blogs.techrepublic.com.com |
Vallis (8886) | ||
| 587068 | 2007-09-03 03:39:00 | If UAC is stopping the change in some way, the quickest way to disable it is to click on start orb in the search type in "uac" ( without the " " ) and it should show in the menu above, double click it to open then locate disable. | wainuitech (129) | ||
| 587069 | 2007-09-03 04:00:00 | If UAC is stopping the change in some way, the quickest way to disable it is to click on start orb in the search type in " uac " ( without the " " ) and it should show in the menu above, double click it to open then locate disable. UAC is the first thing I turned off, never had a problem after that. |
intel hunter (6666) | ||
| 587070 | 2007-09-03 06:38:00 | Did you know theres a way to stop the annoying pop-ups without actually taking away the protection? See the SANS videos on Youtube. I'll post a link if I can find it:thumbs: |
beeswax34 (63) | ||
| 587071 | 2007-09-04 00:33:00 | Was your D: drive a system boot drive in a previous setup? From my reading you just may have to save data on it and reformat/partition it . |
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