Drive Letter Change after XP Pro Installation

From: Craig (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 11/11/03 

Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 20:25:14 -0800

This will not work for the system or boot partition under
XP, as I stated in the post.
>-----Original Message-----
>Goto Control Panel, Administration Tools,Computer
>Management, Disk MAnagement. Right click the drive you
>wish to change and select Change Drive letter and Paths.
>This changes all registry entries as it goes. I have used
>it quite often with no negative effects.
>
>Karl
>
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>How do I change the drive letter of a boot/system
>>partition under XP Pro? DiskPart and DiskManager can not
>>change the drive letter of a system or boot partition. I
>>could do this operation under NT without much
>difficulty.
>>XP assigns F: to the partition in question, C: is
>>available and I would like to make the change but I can
>>not.
>>THANKS!
>>.
>>
>.
>

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