Change drive letter of boot partition...

[Mike Curwen]

Is this an impossible task?

I've just downloaded Partition Magic to see if I can even do this, but in the readme for 'known issues' it says:

- You should not change the drive letter originally assigned to 
  the Windows NT/2000/XP boot partition (the partition where Windows 
  is installed). Changing the drive letter to anything but its 
  original designation will cause severe boot problems and may 
  cause your computer to be unbootable.

And there's this page...
http://www.goodells.net/multiboot/notes.htm#12

Do not install the new HD first and try to format it with XP; just
 put it in bare and boot the utility floppy. (Many people make this 
mistake, which gives XP a chance to give the new HD a different drive 
letter, which can screw things up.) 
 
Very important: do *not* leave the old HD installed as a slave when you 
first boot the new HD. 

So my XP CD 'saw' my new HD, and saw my old HD, which already had 'C' on the old active partition. So yah.. now I'm stuck with a system that has 'G:' as the boot partition.

Anyone ever able to change this, or am i screwed?
[ December 02, 2003: Message edited by: Mike Curwen ]

[Dan Hart]

Hmmm, XP is a weird animal.
To read about changing the boot drive go here.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q223188
Though its not guaranteed to work.
I dont use XP much, and the more I hear about it, the better I think I am