I have multiple Hard drives on my computer. I formated one drive and reinstalled windows on it. But when im using that hard drive, its drive letter is G and I want to change it to C (windows default). I tryed using windows Disk Manager to change the letter but it doesnt let me, prabally because im booted from the hard drive. Is there an app or something that would help me...

There is no way to change the system drive that Windows is running from without reinstalling the OS.

You could take the scenic route, dual boot and change the drive letter from within the other OS ...

That won't work. Dual booting doesn't change what the other OS assigns the drives.

Originally posted by QWERTY
That won't work. Dual booting doesn't change what the other OS assigns the drives.

Actually it will if he moves the "offending" drive such that it is primary master. Much as I hate to contradict your categorical statement (:rolleyes: ) I did this recently for someone with complete success.

I'm sure you did. ..complete success even. :rolleyes:

Originally posted by QWERTY
I'm sure you did. ..complete success even. :rolleyes:

You have something to say or you just going to hide behind inferred comments? Stop being a smart arse if you don't know what you are talking about, go try it on a machine, its not complicated.

I have, rarely actually works so easily, especially with Windows 2000 or XP and if it's NTFS. You failed to address the dozens of places on the system where settings would still be coded to the previous drive letter, meaning he'd still have to redo numerous things to get it running right. I'm sure to you that's a complete success but doubt he would agree. He might as well reinstall it correctly if he had to go through that trouble.

Drive mapper, supplied with Partition Magic, takes care of the registry in a couple of seconds, the whole process takes a few minutes. The only time consuming aspect would be getting a copy of partition magic if he doesn't have it already.

Not complicated. No trouble. Very quick. Result, complete success. Irrespective of file system.

Believe me yet or want to make yourself look even more stupid?