Re: OT Please? "F" =Boot Partition-Not C

Well, you're right. (Damn!) First, Microsoft agrees with you:
In their webpage http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307844
they say:
"Changing the drive letter of the system volume or the boot volume
is not a built-in feature of the Disk Management snap-in."

Here's what Microsoft says to do to change the drive letter of
the system or boot partition: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/223188/
As you can see, it involves going into the registry.

But just to give Disk Management a try, I made a couple clones
of my XP partition and tried to change their drive letters.
If the partition was either the system partition (the one whose boot
files were used) or the boot partition (the one where the running
OS resides), Disk Management wouldn't do it, instead returning
an error message. If the partition was neither, though, even if it
contained an OS, the drive letter could be changed, and it would
persist for the OS which had renamed the partition. Other clones,
when running, still referred to the re-named drive by its old letter
name. So it is true that the drive letter names exist in the running
OS and not in the named partitions, but why an OS cannot re-name
its own partition or that partition which contained the loader, I don't
know.

*TimDaniels*

"JayB" wrote:
NO, you can never use diskmanagement to rename the booted partition.

Timothy Daniels wrote:
Since your OS knows
its own partition as "F:", run the OS and go into Disk Management
(rt-clk MyComputer, select Manage, select Disk Management) and
rt-clk on the F: partition's representation and change its name to "C:".
Do the same for other partitions portrayed there to avoid naming conflicts.
(BTW, I've never done this, so let me know if it works.)

*TimDaniels*


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