Drive Letters Changed After Install
Decided to install Windows 7 Pro today but when the install completed, I noticed my drive letters were out of order.
Previously, my partition drives when running Vista Home Premium were
C: System
D: Recovery
E: Apps
F: Data
Now its automatically changed to
C: System
D: Apps
E: Data
F: Recovery
My HP Recovery partition jumped down the list and changed from D to F and shifted the letters of the other drives as well. I have no idea why it changed on its own as I only installed Windows 7 in drive C. The Recovery drive is the 2nd fullest driver on my HD behind C Drive.
Is this normal? Is there a fix for such a thing?
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