XP "can't change drive letter"

Disk replacement, had to reinstall WinXPsp2, which put boot on "I: ".
Computer Management / Disk Management now says "Windows can't change drive letter ". That's 2 major errors. Any HELP?

 

yep - u can't change the system drive letter after the install.

curious as to the reason u installed to i: at reinstall? - u can reinstall again and choose the letter u wish for the most part.

if there's some other info as to why the system drive is at i: ... maybe u could include that? IOW - it's sounds like something is missing here

 

Hello abrammiller,

I'm just as puzzled as skeet is about how you ended up with this.

You're going to have to delete the current I boot partiton:
http://www.svrops.com/svrops/dwnldutil.htm

Download DELPART and extract it to floppy - boot, make sure the BIOS is set to boot to the A drive first.

Then re install XP, otherwise you're going to end up with a dual boot if you install again w/o deleting that partition first.

Regards - Charles

 

hey charles - i've seen a gaming system that had a setup like this. don't recall the reasons or the methods or the machine setup at all but ... i think it had a SATA raid setup. anyway ... there's gotta be more to this story

 

Hi skeet,

... there's gotta be more to this story, you're right about that.

abrammiller should post some more details, really curious

Regards - Charles