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Title: Computer Problems- Changing Drive Letter
Post by: Sensei on May 28, 2013, 10:52:52 pm

I just replaced a hard drive on a friend's computer, after the old one crashed. Unfortunately the letter of the drive has defaulted to H:\, which isn't ideal- I'd rather it be C:\, since my friend doesn't want to change the default install path of everything ever (not being much of a computer person).

I've looked at how to change this and I see a means to do so which is just manipulating registries- which seems kind of silly if I've formatted the entire drive and done a new Windows install. Is there another way to do this? I'm not sure if I accidentally missed it installing windows the first time.

Title: Re: Computer Problems- Changing Drive Letter
Post by: freeformschooler on May 28, 2013, 11:00:53 pm

Have you tried disk management? (http://pcsupport.about.com/od/windows7/ht/change-drive-letters-windows-7.htm) What OS are you even running here?

Title: Re: Computer Problems- Changing Drive Letter
Post by: NobodyPro on May 28, 2013, 11:07:50 pm

Quote from: freeformschooler on May 28, 2013, 11:00:53 pm

Have you tried disk management? (http://pcsupport.about.com/od/windows7/ht/change-drive-letters-windows-7.htm)

As somebody who manages three temperamental hard drives, this.

Title: Re: Computer Problems- Changing Drive Letter
Post by: Sensei on May 28, 2013, 11:11:38 pm

I tried disk management- but, as the only drive and therefore the one I'm booting off of, it wouldn't allow me to change the letter.

Curiously, it shows up as C: when I'm formatting from the boot disk.

Edit: Formatting it again left it as H. Formatting again made it C.

Problem solved. Don't know why, but it's solved.