Changing The System Drive
Oct 26, 2009
I have 3 hard drives on my laptop, i have vista on one, seven on the other and one with no OS on. After buying and installing seven today on a clear hard drive, and transfering everything of vista's hard drive onto my seven one, it was time to format vista.
Windows will not let me do this because of the dual boot setup, and the vista drive being shown as the system drive (see screenshot) can someone tell me how to change the system drive, so i can format my vista hard drive which isnt needed anymore.
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Jan 1, 2010
What would be the easiest way to change my "System" - drive to C: ?
When I look at Disk Management the (Disk 0) Windows 7 Drive (C says (Boot, Page File, Crash Dump, Primary Partition) but not System.
the (Disk 1) (System) drive is F:
How could I change it to the (Disk 0) C: drive ?
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Jan 22, 2013
I had Windows installed to the first partition on my drive (which is C:) and after a few years now it's gotten full of software I don't use anymore and the like. Rather than install Windows over it and starting over, I decided to install to another partition and get everything set up before doing away with the old one.
I got Windows installed and mostly everything I use installed and working. My plan was to create an image of this copy and clone it back to the original partition. That was my plan until I realized I had screwed up majorly. The second installation of Windows says it's installed to F: (I'm not sure why, since I thought each version of Windows installed sees itself as C:). Maybe because I started the installation from the other copy of Windows instead of booting straight to the install CD.
Now my question is... Is there any way to make this copy think of the drive it's installed on as C: or will I be stuck cloning it to a drive labeled F:? Thinking about it, it doesn't seem possible considering everything is looking to F: instead of C: on this installation.
Here is an image of my drive setup. C: is the old copy (where I want F: to go) [URL]
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I'm sure there's probably a tutorial for this somewhere in the tutorial index but I can't seem to find it.
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D is my system partition. What I want to do is make C my system partition. Just as an extra bit of information, here's the status
E: Healthy, Primary Partition
D: Healthy, system, primary partition
C: healthy, boot, page file, active, crash dump, primary partition
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Dec 24, 2012
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On my taskbar are five removable drives labelled H,W,X,Y and Z. I have no idea what storage device each of these drives is referring to. I would like to use the letter H to label a HDD. When I open disk management however (my computer>manage>disk management) none of the removable drives are shown.I have tried reading an assortment of USB sticks, phones and mp3 players but none of them show up as H. How can I change the drive letter of a removable drive?
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Dec 24, 2012
Intel Core i7 CPU 950@3.07GHz 3.81GHz 12Gb RAM ATI Radeon HD 5770
Monitor 1 - BenQ2400W (Landscape) Monitor 2 - BenQ2400W (Portrait)
Win 7 Pro 64bit: Epson Stylus Photo R1900.
On my taskbar are five removable drives labelled H,W,X,Y and Z. I have no idea what storage device each of these drives is referring to. I would like to use the letter H to label a HDD. When I open disk management however (my computer>manage>disk management) none of the removable drives are shown.I have tried reading an assortment of USB sticks, phones and mp3 players but none of them show up as H. How can I change the drive letter of a removable drive?
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Jun 14, 2009
Vista Ultimate 64bit / Windows 7 Ultimate RC1 64bit
I successfully installed Windows 7 on a blank drive. The installation kept the drive letter "H" and name.
Drive C: Is my Vista boot drive, and I'm done with it. My plan is to change it to some higher letter of the alphabet, then .
Question I
If I change my "G" drive (Windows 7 boot drive) letter to "C" with 'Disk Management' will all be well?
Question II
Will just deleting my Vista installation cause any problems with the Windows 7 installation?
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I know it doesn't mean it is physically on C:, it is still on the same partition of the second HD where I installed it, but it shows its partition as C:. I used Computer Management to change most of the drive letters so that they appear as they do in XP, but every time I try to change the drive letter of 7 from C: to S:, it gives an error, something about not allowed to change drive letter of system disk which has the pagefile.
So is it at all possible to force change the drive letters so that 7 is shown on S: and XP on C:. I opened C: (the 7 installation) and found many text files in system folders and program files which point to locations on C:, so if I force a change from C: to S:, what happens to all of these - do they automatically change their paths to S:, or does the whole thing just go phut!
I had the same problem when I installed Vista, but I didn't use it all that much, and so I didn't do anything about it, but I like 7, and unlike Vista which everyone said was an intermediate product until the next version came out, 7 is here to stay. I am ready to do another clean install if there is any way around this problem.
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